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Show New fori Coroner Is Poisoned Contracts Blood Poison Whilo Handling Hand-ling Bodies Recovered From Slocum Disaster. NEW YORK, June 25. Coroner O'Gorman, who has handled most of the bodies recovered j from the Slocum disaster, has contracted blood poisoning. He pricked a finger of the right hand while removing a breastpin from one of the bodies last Sunday, although he wore rubber gloves. Within a short time the finger began to swell and thc poison spread rapidly. The usual treatment treat-ment has thus far failed to check the spread, and antl-toxlne probably will be Injected Into the Coroner's arm today. |