Show killed by ctr castor beana early last spring mrs louls louis the wife of a butcher of williamsburg liams burg N Y received a castor bean plant which she put into a garden back of her house her domestic servant elsie haller 25 years old watched the plant grow about three weeks ago the bean pods began to t ripen mrs warned mist haller against picking any of the beans the other morning the servant was taken ill and she admitted bitted that for more than ten days she had picked and eaten some of the beans and that on the day before ah she e ate more than a dozen mrs sent for a doctor but when he arrived the servant was dead coroner nason ordered dr J F valentine to perform an autopsy the result showed that the womans comans death was due to inflammation super induced by the excessive use of castor beans |