Poisoned Buns. ELEVEN PERSONS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED FROM EATING THEM.
Permission was obtained by the Coroner from the Board of ITc.iltli, Philadelphia, to evluune the bodies of cloven snppo.sed victims, of tea buns made by n baker named Palmer. This includes Palmer's own wife and hix children, whose deaths in rapid suece^ion cieated a .sensation in the upper pai tof the city three years ago. In the attoinoon four bodies ot William F. Diebel's cliildicn were exhumed and poitiona of the u*>cera, lemoved for examination. The mortality in this family led to the examination of Palmer's tea buns, w Inch resulted in the disco"\eiy by a chemi-t of two grains ot chi ornate of lead in one of the buns, u.sed for the purpose of imparting a rich yellow hue. Three weeks ago, Mi\s Rush, living on Fifth street, above Lohigh Avenue, died,, and she is believed to have been a victim of the poisoned buns. The names of fceven persons sick in the neighbourhood of Palmer's bakery, at No. ."50-i, Lehigh Avenue, aie fmnihhed as of those who became sick after eating the buns.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1887, Page 4
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187Poisoned Buns. ELEVEN PERSONS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED FROM EATING THEM. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1887, Page 4
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