MYSTERIOUS DEATHS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 286, 4 December 1933, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS DEATHS

CAFE MYSTERY SOLVED. The best brains in the New York police were engaged recently in trying io solve the following riddle:— A man and a woman, both strangers to each other, collapsed and died almost simultaneously in a restaurant. Both had died from cyanide poisoning. They had sat. at different tables. There was no food on cither of the two plates, but a half-eaten roll was found in the woman’s bag. This, however, was free from poison. The man was a motor mechanic. The woman was known as a miser, who lived in a hovel, although she had a hoarded fortune of £9OOO. How did they come to die at the same time, and from the same cause? After a long investigation the police found the solution: The man put poison in a roll and ate half of it. Then he staggered to tho washing room, where he collapsed. The woman miser, who preferred to collect scraps of food rather than to spend any of her money, picked up the remainder of the roll, ate ir, and paid for her avarice with her life. The half-eaten roll in her bag was one of her previous pickings.