POISONED BY POST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 15 January 1907, Page 4

POISONED BY POST.

bTKVcIiXIXIO IX .SILOUmiEAD. HKNT 1!V AN "UIjU FUIIAU." kAIAS rsTIiAV-h IJKATH. A mysterious e.iv of poisoning b< ivporHl from Cuinncck, -\\i»iure. Kiceii.ly. a pared -,\;\» dcbveicd liv pui'i'.'l post al th- 1 hon-e of William Lennox, \\ oodside, a retired tanner. Tlie parcel, which coiu.lined bit'tidj bore II):.- postmark of ki imu'nock, and *mi a card were Hie word.-, • uii'i liappy ;:n limn an old friend." bin- there no 'J'he ;diovtbiead was given into the charge oi' Ail.-.-? .Alckerow. Mr .L..11110X s ;d« i.e.

K\entiiaily il wa* decided to u.:e the cake <>ii the occasion of a vi.-dt of a liciLihlior named Al is -\lcl»aiu. Suddenly Miss .Mckerrow was taken ill. fctoe declared >he had Wen poi M»ued, and ti;e symptom* continued this \ie\v. 'I hree local medical men were at once summoned, and everything was done mat was p --ib;e to relieve the agony of the poor lady, but without avail, for she grew worse, and in about an hour her sull'erings ended m death. Mr Lennox aUo Miowed svmptoms of poisoning, though, foitnnal'ly, the doctors were able to cope with the case, and he is progressing favorably. Mrs Mclkiin suffered on her ret-Ri'ii home, but she has re covered. A domestic servant at Woodside also tasted the cake, and was taken ill. An examination of the cake and the character of the symptoms, especially in Miss Mtdverrow ? s case,, point, it is said, to the presence of strychnine. Mr Thomas Jbwn, laU: managing director of tlr; La.ucina.rk Cobiery Company, who is married to a niece of ALr Lennox, and is connected with several well-known families in Ayrshire, lias been arrested in connection with tlio affair.