STRYCHNINE
POISONED CREAM
TESTER TAKEN ILL
vAustralian Press Association) (United Service.)
(Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 16
A can containing six gallons ol cream delivered into Albion Park butter factory a few days ago, was thoroughly impregnated with strychnine. The tester at the factory tasted the cream and noticed it hitter. Later he fell writhing -in a seizure. A doctor was caTTed and diagnosed the case as slrvchnine poisoning. It is alleged a l-ottlc containing the deadly poison was upset at a coastal dairy, and some ran into a cream can. In ignorance of this tact the can vns filled with cream and sent to the taetoJV can readily he imagined what might have happened had, it gone undiscovered by the testei.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1929, Page 1
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125STRYCHNINE Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1929, Page 1
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