Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — MURDERED BY MAIL [ARTICLE]

MURDERED BY MAIL

Death Accompanies Letter Penned by Hand of a Woman. San Francisco, Dec. 4.—Poison conveyed in a letter mailed in this city is believed to have caused the death of Henry Boas, a salesman for an electric company. A communication purporting to be from a physician was sent to Boas by special delivery. The evidence in possession of the police indicates that the letter, penned by a woman, contained two powders,\ which the recipient was urgently advised to take as a remedy for indigestion.