A DREADFUL TRAGEDY.
On 3rd August Mr. James Nimmo, lately a well-known news-agent and publisher, residing at Glasgow, poisoned with prussic acid three of his children, named respectively Christiana, aged five ; James, aged three and a half; and Harry, aged a year and a half; and afterwards committed suicide by swallowing a portion of the same deadly drug. The unhappy parent had also attempted to administer a dose of the poison to Blair, his eldest son, aged seven years, .but only partially succeeded, and the boy is now recovering.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 27, 7 November 1871, Page 3
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89A DREADFUL TRAGEDY. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 27, 7 November 1871, Page 3
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