Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1912 — Poisoned In Handling Paper Money [ARTICLE]

Poisoned In Handling Paper Money

While in St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Lafayette, Joe Nagel met A. J. Law of Morocco, who was our democratic candidate for state senator four years ago. Mr. Law. who is now’ engagefl in the banking business at Morocco, got his hand poisoned, supposed to have been caused from a scratch on his thumb and poisoned from handling soiled paper money passing through the bank. He had a terribly bad arm and for some time it was feared he would never recover. , He was in the hospital there about four months, and will entirely recover from the poisoning.