ATTEMPT TO POISON AN ENGISH REGIMENT IN INDIA.
A correspondent sends the following Information to the Indian Railway Service " Gazette." Very considerable excitement has been aroused at Agra, owing to an attempt that has been made to poison the Manchester Regiment stationed there. It leems that shortly after visiting the eantsen, the men were sefzad with violent atttoks of vomiting, which created a suspicion that something was wrong with the bser. The beer on tap was accordingly examined, when it was found to contain arsenic The dastardly attempt Is not considered to have been mads with
•Ny political object*, but it is somewhat
■tnnge that only ttioie oaiki containing beer for the Manchester Regiment were . foand to have been poisoned. A cask that has just beta tapped at the Sergeants' Mm*. Royal A t tiller j, wai tested and founcLto oontaln areonlo ; bnt it had pcavlooily been marked (or the Manchester Regiment, whloh makes stronger the belief that there ia nothing polltiaal eonneoted with the attempt; for, had there - been, all the troops In the garrison would have been served alike. The whole of the beer m itore at Agra is undergoing a strict ebemical analysis, the samples of eaoh ' cask are being taken and sealed, Erery * loqalry Is being made, and rewards have . been offered to try and diaoover the iuthcn of this diabolic*! plot.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1752, 28 January 1888, Page 3
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226ATTEMPT TO POISON AN ENGISH REGIMENT IN INDIA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1752, 28 January 1888, Page 3
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