CHINESE ACCUSED OF PLOTTING MURDER
POISONING TO GAIN INHERITANCE.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) New York, October 17. A diabolical plot of Oriental cunning to murder, by slow poison, the niece of his wealthy widow employer and also the niece’s husband, and thus make a clear way to the sole inheritance of an estate, are the allegations against Chang Soo Lee, cook and majordomo in a house at White Plains, New York. The police are also investigating the sinister fact that the widow’s former husband, a prominent lawyer named Lawrence Churchill, died suddenly in January, apparently from natural causes, and was cremated on Chang’s advice. The victims, Mr and Mrs George Reeves, both 50 years of age, are in hospital with paralyzed feet as a result of a huge overdose of lead acetate. Chang, a short, unobtrusive man, has been employed by the Churchills for eight years and was implicitly trusted by Mrs Churchill, who is said to have promised to “remember” Chang in her will.
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Southland Times, Issue 23024, 19 October 1936, Page 7
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