STRYCHNINE IN CREAM
DISCOVERY AT FACTORY
TESTER POISONED.
LIQUID ACCIDENTALLY UPSET.
(By Telegraph—Press Assrv.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association)
(Received May 16, 9.45 0.m.) SYDNEY, May 16.
A can containing six gallons of ensam delivered into the Albion Park butter factory a few days ago was thoroughly Impregnated with strychnine. The tester at the faotory tasted the cream and noticed It was bitter.
Later he fell writhing In a seizure. A doctor was called, and diagnosed tho case as strychnine poisoning. It Is alleged that a bottio of deadly poison was upset at a coastal dairy, and some ran Into a cream can. In Ignorance of this fact tho oan was fillod with cream and sent to the factory. It can readily be Imagined what might have happened had the mistake gone undiscovered by the tester.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17712, 16 May 1929, Page 7
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