Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — Discover Plot to Poison Recorder. [ARTICLE]

Discover Plot to Poison Recorder.

A plot to poison Charles P. Surber, of Spencer county, is believed to have been revealed by the analysis in the state food and drug department of the contents of a bottle labeled as a “free sample,” of quinine, which Surber says was sent to ham a few days before the election last November. The bottle was found to contain a mixture of quinine and strychnine and there was enough of the poison present to cause death. The only possible motive is political jealousy.