A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
Q When Emil Koeppen, a widower, returned to his home in Woodland, St. Louis County, recently, he found Miss Selma Geierbach, his housekeeper, and his son Frank, aged 10, dead from poison, and_Jiis sons, Bentley.aged 8, and Robert, aged 16, unconscious in the same bedroom on the second floor of the house.
It was generally known in the town that the housekeeper had been expressing regret that she was to be separated from the children, for whom she professed a strong attachment. She"told neighbours that Mr Koeppen had notified that ho intended to dispense*/with her services. Many neighbours on this account attribute the |poisoning to the housekeeper. "Those who do not hold fast to this theory are mystified. A nearly empty ounce bottle of patent medicine was found in the bedroom. The medicino |is manufactured in St. Louis. Its manufacturer says it would require more than two bottles of it to seriously affect one person. •■r-
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8790, 18 April 1907, Page 4
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160A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8790, 18 April 1907, Page 4
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