POISON-COATED SWEETS
fc ARSENIC COUGH-DROPS CAUSE ILLNESS BIG SUPPLY FOUND i iiiad P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Saturday, j He illness of 13 children in jaire was traced to arsenic-coated ' .ugh drops supplied by a factory in i loffordshire. j Detectives hare now' made an amazliS discovery in a workshop at Tun■jU in that county. Buried under leap of rubbish beneath a staircase av found a box containing 561 b. of ■-senie —sufficient to kill 200,000 fie health officer for the district iresses the opinion that there is no jiabt this was the source of supply Idle powder with which the sweets •interned were dusted in the factory, haaldthe occupier had obtained the svder from a man now in America, ds did not know it was arsenic. At least 17 bottles of the sweets arc awn to have been consumed and forts are being made to trace 12 iters. Many more children have •feed in different localities.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 9
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