Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-03 | Page 12 | Tot Eats Pills; Dies in Agony

TOT EA IS PILLS DIES IN AGONY Secret Feast on Sugar Sugar-c Sugar coated atel Globules Proves Fatal to Year Old Sugar coated pills co containing strychnine strychnine nine caused the yesterday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon of nub Ruby Brown year old daughter daugh h ter ler of Mr and Mrs Irs Arthur Brown 63 Center street Physicians at the Emergency hospi- hospi tal al where the girl Irl was taken as soon as the family had called in a doctor worked in vain valmi to save the tots tot's life n B By that time the strychnine had too gr great at a start In the morning morning- the girl climbed on a L chair and from rom rein a cupboard took a a. box J x containing some somo cathartic pills She bhe had tasted one of oC them before and thought them cand candy canly Nine Ine of the the- g glob glob- ob tiles lIes sho she devoured said laid she bhe swallowed with them more than half haIr a grain STain of or strychnine Rub Ruby made no complaint for or more moro than two hours and the family knew 0 nothing of her surreptitious feast When she became ill III a ph physician 0 was summoned but before he could ar arrhe ar- ar rive nyc the girl was in convulsions The e pills which caused Ruby Hub Browns Brown's I naVe cascara base said he health tr- tr tri i officials They contain one sixteenth of or a grain g of or strychnine for tor medicinal Taken one or two at a time there is no danger in their tion tion consumption According to the officials r there is an average hospital of or one such case a year A year cal ago ao last week mother another child was brought to th hospital hos hos- pital suffering from from Irom poison polson obtained in this manner hut but It was vas a milder ease case and the tho youngsters youngster's life was May Ha cd ed