REGARDED AS ACCIDENT
FAMILY POISONING OCCURRENCE EXPLAINED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United. Press Assn.) (Received April 8, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 8. After an exhaustive investigation by detectives into the Murray family poisoning case, flic affair is regarded as accidental.
The police ascertained that a member of the family purchased white ant exterminator containing, arsenic three years ago, and put it in a pepper castor with sawdust, intending to shake it on a white ant’s nest. Ho afterwards placed the castor at the back of a shelf. Later on a cook found the castor, and thinking pepper was inside restored it to the family table, but the original purchaser pf the poison was then in bed ill, and unaware that the popper was being regularly used by other member's of the family. The victims of the poisoning have not yet fully recovered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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