COOKS ARRESTED
FOLLOWING ON DEATHS BY POISON AT OREGON INSANE HOSPITAL. PATIENT SENT FOR POWDERED MILK. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) PORTLAND, November 23. Two cooks at the Oregon Insane Hospital have been arrested, one charged with involuntary manslaughter and the other with obstructing public justice. The cooks admitted sending a patient to a storeroom to fetch powdered milk for scrambled eggs. The patient brought back insect powder, resulting in the deaths of 47 inmates. The police said the poison was sufficient to kill 12,000 persons. However, the overdose nauseated many patients, thereby saying their lives.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4
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100COOKS ARRESTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4
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