The Bordertown Poisoning Case.
ARSENIC IN PANCAKES. THE FATAL RESULTS. [Fan Pass* Association.] (Fez i.e. Wairarapa, via the Bluff.) Adilaidi, March 23. A. wholesale poisoning tragedy occurred yesterday in the house of Mr Oliver, at Bordertown, nine persona being poisoned, two of whom are already dead. It appears that Mrs Oliver inadvertently took some arsenic left unlabelled by a painter, and put it into pancakes, of which the family partook. Two children, aged six and seven, are dead, and two others are not expected to live many hours. Five others, however, are thought likely to survive. The doctors were unremitting in their attention, but the poison had Bpread through the patients' systems before remedies could be applied.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5579, 29 March 1886, Page 3
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117The Bordertown Poisoning Case. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5579, 29 March 1886, Page 3
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