A FAMILY POISONED.

Dunstan Times, Issue 684, 28 May 1875, Page 3

A FAMILY POISONED.

—o— A whole family were poisoned at Elstcad, Surrey, ou Wednesday. A police-constable bearing that such was the case, wont to the Woolpack Inn, and saw the landlady, Mary Chandler dead in her chair in the bod-room. The landlord was sitting on a stool, with bis head resting on his arms in a dying condition The children—Win. Chandler, aged ten years ; Edith Chandler, eight years ; Thos. Chandler, six years ; and Alfred Chandler, 10 months—were all in helpless condition from the effects of poison. In reply to inquiries made by the constable, Charlotte Donyer stated that her father-in-law, Henry Chandler (dead), mixed a quantity of poison with some flour, and put it on a plate to kill rats. She saw the flour on the plate, hut thought it was all right, «nd put it into a suet pudding. She did not partake of any herself. More deaths arc hourly excepted and the event has caused the utmost consternations in the village.

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