Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — EIGHT CHILDREN POISONED [ARTICLE]

EIGHT CHILDREN POISONED

New York Authorities Unable to Decide if Deaths were Intentional. New York, Fef>. 2^.—Eight children, the oldest ten months, have died in the Brooklyn nursery and infants’ hospital since Sunday and the .? ictors are convinced that they were poisoned. All of the babies were in one ward. The doctors believe that oxalic acid 1 mixed with lime water and milk killed the eight and laid up four others. In an effort to find out if the killings were the result of carelessness or a deliberate attempt to wipe out the infants in the institution, detectives questioned nurses, attendants and: others, finally deciding that they did not have enough evidence upon which to make an arrest.