A POISON THAT CANNOT BE ANALYSED.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1986, 17 May 1875, Page 2

A POISON THAT CANNOT BE ANALYSED.

A poison which-cannot be detected by analysis has long been a desideratum by murderers.- Such a - poison,' it - appears, exists occasionally in cheese, and a sad catastrophe happened in consequence the other day at the village of Stoke, near Little Hampton. A whole family, named Qarver, living at a cottage in the village, were suddenly taken ill, apparently from the-effects of poison. Some lodgers also in the cottage were similarly affected. Medical aid was procured, and happily no one has : died expect a little boy, George Carver, aged four years. At-an inquest, held,on.the body of the deceased child, it was stated that the food of the inmates of the house on the. day when they were taken ill consisted of mutton pudding, cheese, bread and butter, and tea. All were,attacked save one. person, who refrained from eating, the "cheese. A/ post-mortem examination of the body of the child showed that death was caused by an irritant poison;. ; but there was nothing that , could be analysed Dr Faxton stated that poisoning by cheese rarely occured, and that poisonous cheese could not be detected by. analysis.' The jury returned a verdict of ?' Death from an irritant poison, but there was no evidence to show how it got into the ' system," meaning, it is to be presumed, that there was no evidence as to how it got into the cheese. In the meantime those contented persons who "can live comfortably on bread and cheese," and ask for nothing more had better be careful. \ . \