Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — Arsenic the Favorite. [ARTICLE]

Arsenic the Favorite.

Cases of poisoning appear, from the report of the chemical analyzer to the government of Bombay, to be painfully common in India. In the “Kambeker street” case the son of a wealthy Menon, being dissatisfied with his father’s allowances, conspired with the cook to destroy all the members of the family who stood in his way. says the London News. Five persons have actually died of strychnine thus administered. The cook turned queen’s evidence and the murderer has been hanged. In Oodeypore a young girl was on the eve of marriage with a man who did not meet the approval of her friends. The friends got over the difficulty by putting arsenic in ter food. In Poonah the servant of a European nurse robbed her mistress of some money while she was lying ill. Some people in these circumstances would have sent for the police. The Poonah nurse preferred to put arsenic in the pilferer’s soup. In the Kaladgi district a woman applied to a “Mahar” fora charm to stop the quarrelsome habits of her husband. The charm, which was in the form of a white powder, proved perfectly successful. The man died, and so did his dog, who ate the remains of his food. Arsenic, which is obtainable without the slightest difficulty in Bombay, always heads, it is said, the chemical analyzer's list.