THREE PERSONS KILLED
POISONED BAKING SODA WIDESPREAD PLOT FEARED By Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Facing the grave possibility of a widespread poison plot designed to bake the lives of many citizens, the city authorities to-day began an investigation to determine how baking soda sold over the bargain counter of a large local departmental store had come to kill at least three persons and had hundreds of others ill, 'and to which the deaths of 30 others may be traced.
First . theories advanced by investigators were that the soda had been packed in barrels containing deadly insecticides, but a later study showed that more than one poison was present in the contaminated soda, and that these poisons were too thoroughly mixed in to be accidental. Inquiry has also begun into the sudden deaths of 30 persons from stomach disturbances since October 23, when this bulk soda was first put on sale, since in three known cases of death soda was always taken for
indigestion. Two distributors of soda have been arrested and efforts have been made to warn all purchasers of the danger by means of wide broadcasts over the radio.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 272, 22 November 1935, Page 3
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