The Edendale Poisoning Case.

Manawatu Herald, 18 December 1900, Page 2

The Edendale Poisoning Case.

« Charles Arnett was again before the Invercargill Police Court on charges of poisoning Charles Milne and bis two mates at Edendale on the 29th October. The evidence was corroborative of given by Milne, the symptoms of the men's sickness being the same, although Gordon and White did not suffer so severely. Dr Rogers, who attended them said the symptoms— twittering the limbs, inability to articulate, and arching of the body spasmodically — were those of strychnine poisoning. The evidence of securing of the articles of food of which the men had partaken, and these being forwarded under seal to Professor Black wa« ?iven, and the professor deposed that he received these, and the stomach of ; a dog intact. He found nothing particular in the five articles, but in : the sugar he found from 0.55 grains tojA 0.65 grains of strychnine. He madeje about 50 tests, and found the poison in every pinch of the two pounds ten oz sugar. He found strychnine in the stomach of the dog (the dog had licked the men's vomit in the house and outside). He found arsenic on the butter, but mostly on one spot. From half to two grains of strychnine would have proved fatal. The accused was committed for trial bail being retused.