MYSTERIOUS POISOHING FATALITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4313, 7 January 1893, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS POISOHING FATALITY.

(By Telegraph,—Press Association),

Auckland, Friday,

A caao of poisoning, resulting in the death of a young man named Walter Nelson, who caino from the country to epond the holidays with his wife at the residenco of his grandmother has occurred, All in the house partook of jam sandwiches and woro seized with the usual symptoms of poisoning but soon recovered, On Nelson returning home he also took a jam sandwich and became ill. Doctors were sent for and emetics administered, but he got worse and died at midnight, It is suspected that arsenic was used as one of the ingredients of tho pastry. How it got thero is a mystery. LATER. Arsenic Found in the Oream of Tartar. Auckland, January G, Tho inquest on the body of Walter Nelson, who died in Union-streot last night, under circumstances showing that ho bad been poisoned, was commenced to-day, but was adjourned until Friday next. An analysis of the contents of the stomach is to bo made, The eyidonce showed that the cream of tartar used in making the jam roll was bought from a grocer named Boyle. After eating a portion of tho roll, Nelson drank a cup lea and went out. When be came back about an hour afters 'ls he was very ill, and though were given he did not vomit, and he rapidly becamo worse and died, ..The other members of the family, who ate of tho sandwich, vomited freely uid recovered. ■■ Dr Liwry said he had submitted some of the cream of tartar to an aiialyaical chemist, who found that it contained arsenic. Other ovidence was given to tho effect that a considerable quantity of t|w warn jof taijtar.wau 1 .

so'd by Boylo from the, tin out of which that sold to tho Nelson's was token. The sample of cream of tartar obtained some time ago from the giocer who supped the Nelson family,-was analysed to-day, and was found to contain arsenic.