ATTROCIOUS POISONING CASE. Love's Potent Charm.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 228, 12 November 1887, Page 9

ATTROCIOU S POISONING CASE. Love's Potent Charm.

The fads have just transpired in Sydney of a case of such a daring and reckless use of poison as should induce paients throughout the colony to exercise the utmost care in looking- after the well-being of their little ones. As far as can be ascertained, the circumstances leveal either a brutal disregard of the lives of some children by a nuisegirl to whom they were entrusted, or else an ignorance and thoughtlessness bordering on imbecility, and so dense that her employment in that capacity again would be little short of criminal. The girl was employed by a gentleman of good position in Padding ton, and had received the fullest confidence from her employers, so much so, in fact, that when they wished to spend a few days away on a visit, they left the family of young children in her charge. Their surprise and consternation may be imagined when, on the parents' leturn, three ot the little ones were found to be very seriously ill, and to show palpable evidence of narcotic poisoning, which appeared to have been gradually and insidiously absorbed into the children's systems. A medical man was immediately called in, and after confirming the supposition that narcotics had been administered, set to work to counteract the influence of the poison. After being questioned closely as to the treatment to which the children had beensubjected, this extraordinary specimen of a nurse calmly confessed that she required more time in the company of her " young man than attendance necessary to the children would admit, so she dosed them periodically with chlorodyne and laudanum. Medical attendance -will have to be continued in the cases of the little ones, one of whom it is feared will all her life be a victim to the effects of this atrocious conduct.

Onldit that Mr George Suazelle and Mr Herbert Reeves, the latter the son of the great and only Sims, contemplate a raid! upon the colonies m ith a little two-handed entertainment.