An Extraordinary Occurrence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3867, 23 July 1891, Page 2

An Extraordinary Occurrence.

I A curious and tragic sequel attended a wedding which was solemnised at Lyndon, near Louisville, (U.S.A.), on the 15th April. According to the account given by the Louisville correspondent of the New York Herald the wedding festivities were of an unusually brilliant character, the ceremony being attended by no fewer than Gfty guests. Everything passed of? successfully, and after the breakfast the bridal pair started on their wedding journey. .No long time elapsed, however, before first one and then another I of those who had partaken of the wed* ding breakfast began to complain of indisposition, and in the end all the fifty guests displayed symptoms of arsenical poisoning. One of the sufferers, Mr Frank Guthrie, one of the wealthiest citizens of Louisville, died next morning j and others are in a critical condition. The bridal couple became so ill that they were compelled to return home * and both are in a dangerous state, The physicians declare that all ate suffering from arsenical poisoning, and it is feared that a diabolic crime has been oommitted The poison, it is supposed, was placed in the spring whence Mr Herr's house derives its water supply, but no clue has yet been obtained to the criminal.