Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — Strychnine Causes Death. [ARTICLE]

Strychnine Causes Death.

New Albany, March 5.—Edward G. Mayes, fifty-two years old, a prominent druggist here and a widely known resident of this city, died suddenly. Strychnine poison was the cause of his death. Recording to the attending physicians and Dr. C. E. Briscoe, county coroner. Mr. Mayes denied emphatically to his physicians before he died that he had taken poison.