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Show puces sini i IN ICE CREAM 10 EIDS HIS LIFE D'-iiundent over ill health, caused I bv the after affects of an influenza attack. Joseph La Font, a French i -heephorder, sprinkled strychnine on la dish of ice cream yesterday. He then proceeded to oat the cream Death resulted a few minutes later, i he man suffering horriblv with convulsions. con-vulsions. La Font, the police states, ordered a dish of ice cream in the National hotel ice cream parlor. No further attention was given t hi - man until he fell to the floor in convulsions Dr. E. M. Conroy was summoned and ordered or-dered the man sen; to lu- hospital Death came before the patient had arrived ar-rived at the hospital. A partially filled fill-ed bottle of strychnine was found in his pocket, and strychnine was in the! ice cream dish, the police state. La Font recently returned from Los Angeles, where he had gone in an effort ef-fort to regain his health. |