POISON IN SWEETS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1922, Page 5

POISON IN SWEETS.

SENSATION IN LONDON. CHIEF OF POLICE VICTIM. CHOCOLATES BY POST By Telegraph.—Pres* Assn. -Copyright Received Nov. 12, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 11. General Sir William Ilorwood, Chief Commissioner of Police, was dressing for th? Lord Mayor’s banquet, when he suddenly collapsed at Scotland Yard. Three doctors were called in, and later it was necessary to remove him to St. Thomas’s Hospital. The police announce that the Commissioner’s illness is due to the malicious administration of poison in chocolates. The miscreant is not yet known. General Horwood has been repeatedly threatened by Bolsheviks and extremists, and there are suspicions that they placed corrosive poison in his luncheon. He narrowly escaped death, only his’fine physique and the fact that doctors were near at hand to give repeated, administrations of oxygen saved him. His condition is still serious. It is understood the poison was either arsenic or strychnine. It was contained In a box of chocolates, which was posted in London to General Horwood. The latter and Miss Drysdale, his confidential secretary, partook of the chocolates. Miss Drysdale noticed an unpleasant taste, and ate only one, but General Horwood unsubpiciously ate several, and the seizure occurred 15 minutes later.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asqn.