POISONED CUCUMBERS
PICKLED IN ARSENIC. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. London, March 26. The Daily Mail’s Warsaw correspondent states that Vilna reports a mysterious attempt to poison the population of Minsk by selling 300 casks of arsenicized pickled cucumbers, resulting ia hundreds of victims in one day. The authorities, through cinemas, theatres, and restaurants, advised the public to eschew cucumbers, and arrested Kozdan, the seller of several casks, and compelled him to eat one of his own cucumbers, making ‘him seriously ill. The affair is regarded as a terroristic act and a Soviet pretext to further wholesale arrests of “White Russians.”—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20448, 28 March 1928, Page 5
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