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Show pPOISON MYSTERIES I INTERESTS BRITISH READERS wL les Featured in Headlines of Press Re- Wl11 "Unsolved After Near Epidemic Imam Unsoiv Kjllings aU.s a MATSON M? "'Th standa"1' MnT the political rrish Brotninnt position on PSln-trader Both Kdo lh hor r. ing let r a Po"on mysterj. KV',ih hlnp dangerously Pb,Um'ic 5 poison killing-K killing-K C month but there, ;;;;, . and Word case: ftUh-0 widow ofChia- Ker Phoolan Pr Ber-H Ber-H to an 0f excellent fc!"KV onn h.r ...-h C'KSd th' stomach taken; , ndT" days later Dr fci?unconsrio.is In a Urn-, Mf? !z h,ving taken poison RSk hi room he registered W. .trnie- There was slg- n c police believe, he-fe) he-fe) Armstrong recent!, . . murder of his lf-tpoined. lf-tpoined. PhlnlV here wn.-. , he used Ihc naT tne! J'3 Th solution of the Klt .however, until No- ii ;.)c rrsu.t o' ,1,- analysis R'- ri ade ibllc Kond rase H even more mys-, yp Elilli Thompson. oung p,"'-. Thompson '.va- found serially on a street m l -, InWht Her husband, she fc'fjlen and hurt his he.id. iHc wu picked up and found to have lpn stabbed to death. Mrs, Thompson Thomp-son knew nothing about nny attack Hnlmafclnative detectives found a knife In a nearby sewer Next day they arrested ar-rested Its owner. Frederick Bywater. I a storekeeper. Then they found a bunch of letters I In By water's room. These have presented pre-sented a real puzsle. Obliquely and subtly th lytffr phraser of these letters let-ters tell of a ;icat passion; and there Is more than the suggestion Df a poison pois-on plot worthy of the Medici These, are loc letter--, but strange love letters. let-ters. One begins "It must he remembered remem-bered that the digitalln Is a cumulative poison and that the same dose, harm-loss harm-loss If taken once, becomes deadly when frequently repeated. Darling boy, the above passage I have Just come across in a book I am reading. Bella Donna,' Is it any use?" Through all the letters there Is u note of desperate, consclem elessvper-slstence. elessvper-slstence. There was only one suggestion of fear for Ihe future. "Would it make any difference to her lover this thing I am going to do for us both? Will you ever think any the less of me 7 Not now, I know, but perhaps later on In the years that are to come?" Would he; In a word, carefully taste his own tea after they had quarreled" This Is the Ilfoid case which also must wait awhile before all of the facts arc developed In the courts 'JO |