Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-26 | Page 11 | Five in Family Die after Eating Cake

FIVE IN FAMILY DIE AFTER EATING CAKE NEWPORT Arkansas Dec Dee 26 P JP Authorities of Newport today were i investigating t g the deaths of Walter Ballew his wife and three children who died as a result of eating Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas cake Mrs s. Ballew baked the cakes early last week in preparation for the holidays holi holi- days A small cake was served for dinner Thursday Shortly after niter the dinner the family became violently ill Ballew and his wife died Friday and their three sons sons ranging rangin in age from 15 to 23 died Saturday Sheriff Sherif Albright said an nn examina examina- lion tion of the bodies established the family died from poisoning He said he found eight pounds of poison in a barrel in the Ballew attic understood to have been used last summer for lor cotton insects He said Mrs Ballew may have used some of the poison by mistake or that it may have been intentionally mixed into flour during her absence e I