| Show POISON SUPPLY IS 15 I fOUND FOUM O UI AT COLLEGE I I I STRYCHNINE MYSTERY AT STATE UNIVERSITY IS CAUSING INVESTIGATION i Suspicion Points to f Some Some Unknown Intellectual Type 60 Pupils Will be Questioned Columbus A Or-A 0 A new bottle ot of strychnine the presence o of which was unknown was discovered by Dean Clair A Dye of the college of pharmacy at Ohio State university in a recheck of the dispensary stock The bottle contained perhaps seventy seventy- seventy five five grains of the poison Dr Dye unable unable unable sleep Co-sleep because e of the worry occasioned b by the death of two students one of whom is known i ito to have died of strychnine poison poison- poisoning poisoning ing returned to the dispensary short short- shortly shortly I ly after midnight and rechecked the entire stock On a shelf out of sight in a corner cornel he found the half filled bottle of strychnine How or when the poison got there Dr Dye does does not know He lie has hns been connected with the college of phar phar- pharmacy phar- phar pharmacy pharmacy macy for more than thirty years and he says that he has no recollection of ever having seen any such bottle of strychnine before Science was called upon to unravel the mysteries of its own teachings teaching and furnish a solution to the doling out of laden death-laden concoctions to uni- uni university uni university students who sou sought ht higher learning in its branches I I Police and learned professors are nr re refaced faced not only with determining the cause for the death of the two stu- stu students stu students dents an sudden and mysterious ill illness illness illness ness of a half dozen others but must find finda a motive for crime if it is found that poison capsules were intention intentionally intentionally ally administered to the victims Analysis has revealed re that strychnine strychnine nine caused illness i of some of the students and traces of the deadly poison were found in the vital organs of one who died I Possessed with these facts the au authorities authorities authorities have begun a search for a youthful intellectual of the Leo Leo- Leo Loeb type who might have kill killed killed killed ed for the jO joy of oC killing r who calm calm- calmly calmly calmly ly administered ministered poison to determine i its ts effect There is no motive officials agree Sixty students in the medicinal der de department pal are arc to be questioned but little hope is held that an any worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while information will be gained Po- Po Police Po Police lice believe that a person possessed of learning ns as S to administer administer- the pois- pois poison poison poison on would be artful enough to evade questions Suspicion is directed toward no on one police and university officials insist This case has not advanced to that stage |
