REAL "DEAD 'UNS."
STRYCHNINE IN SUGAR
CHICAGO. May 29
Three gamblers were so anxious to "make a killing" over the Illinois Handicap, the principal race at the Aurora (111.) meeting, that they poisoned four thoroughbreds. Ton minutes before the parade, news reached the track that the horses were ill, and the evidence of tampering was so plain that the race was cancelled. One mare died during the evening and the others are still sick.
The police obtained confessions from the gamblers that they had given the horses strychnine in sugar. _ If the poison had'not acted quickly, the gamblers expected to make at £50,000 coup. ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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