NIGHTMARE RIDE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 219, 10 May 1932, Page 7

NIGHTMARE RIDE

THREE BROTHERS DIE AFTER EATING POISONEiy * SCONES QUEENSLAND TEAGFD"^"" ' SYDNEY. The-stoty of a nightmarft. d^ve by three brothers, all 'suffering from j>oisoning, which' killed 'all of them, was told this week at a co^ner'&lnquest f_ at Maryborough, Qaeensland. ; _ The three brotheis Bayley worked a farm on a share basis. Last' ftat'urday one of them, who wasActjmg as cook, made scones frohi fiour in tneir larder, and the three ate" the scones for lunch. Almost immediately -One of them beeame violently ill, 'and while the others were attending/ to him they also were affected."". * '' Detective Keef e, who inteYVie^ed Henry Bayley, the third brothef* to die, in hospital, tendered a statement in evidence which described the- ride to- hospital. ' ' "When we felt the first - hwful pains," said Henry Bayley, "we knew that something was wrong, and harnessed the horse in the sulky and made a dash for the hospital. "I was so bad that I fell out of the sulky soon after we started. My brothers helped rae back. We .dr,ove on half a mile, and Jim got .,.the cramps. He stood Up, stiffenej,,4.p.nd nearly fell out,, but we pulled.him back on the seat. A few miles further on Will took cramp, stiffened, _and died in his seat. Jim and I drqyjs* on until we came to a creek. : . jiieb I took another turn, I said to Jiip^ Jlt's no good; I can't go any further^ I will only f all out and break my n'eck. If I am going to die, I'm going to die here.' I got out .and lay""d6Nvn. Jim got out, staggered, and fell dead beside me. I remembe!fed'\fipthing after that until I woke up in'''hOspital." , Henry Bayley died shortly afterwards and could give no information to show how the poison had been plaeed in the floui\ The coroner closed the inquest, saying that only the person- who put the poison in the flour knew wh-ojdid it. He directed' the police •to -make the fullest inquiries and report to him in a fortnight.