POISON IN WIFE'S TEA.
The wife of Walter Baker, of Inworth, Essex, charged her husband at Witham with attempting to murder her by placing stryehnaae in her tea. She said she poured out two cups of tea for herself and husband, and filled a mug for the child. She left the room for a few minules, but noticed a difference in the colour of the tea. Sue tasted it and found it bitter. She then asked her husband what he had done. He said that if anything was wrong the child must have put it in. Mrs Baker added that her husband threw the tea away, but she noticed something in the bottom of the cup when he brought it back, and on his she hid the cup. Her husband had told her that he would be only too glad to put on a black coat and follow her to her grave. Constable Tucker stated that the woman had handed the cup to him, which he took to Dr. Thresh, when it v/as found to contain poison.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 8 June 1910, Page 3
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177POISON IN WIFE'S TEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 8 June 1910, Page 3
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