ANOTHER POISONING CASE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8463, 4 February 1895, Page 4

ANOTHER POISONING CASE.

The Inangab.ua Herald* ,raports :— On Thursday week' Mr' J." Brown, with three man. William Besnnsley,"Eusiell Moßeo, and F. Lester, was mustering on bis station, in the Upper 5 Matakitakir On returning home at night the.y .found tbey .were sh,orfc of bread, and Beamsley started: to bake some scones for the evening meal. Going to tha •tore for aoid, Beamsley took down a tin from the shelf, asking Brown if that were the powder. The latter was shearing a •heep outside, and looking up and seeing Beamsley had taken the tin from where the aoid usually stood, replied in the affirmative. Beamsley went on with his cooking and nothing further happened until after they had tea, and the men noticed the dogs were all very sick, and they began to feel unwell themselves. All had eaten heartily of the sconet, and the dogs had also had their share. Their suspicions aroused, an examination wa3 made, and their horror may be imagined when they found the tins of arsenic and aoid close together. By this time, too, the poison had commenced its work, and going for help was out of the question. Soon &U were down, and for thirty hours they lay retohing, vomiting, and exhausted on the floor of the hut. At this time they wore unable to aesist either themselves or one another in any way, and their pitiable condition may be imagined." There ia co doubt the overdose prevented lots of life.