Show THREE EE PERISH I I N MYSTERY POISON I TRAGEDY Cakes Mixed by Aged W Woman Woman Wo- Wo man Results in Death of Trio By Dy United Press Pres I RIVERSIDE Cal Cat Nov Noy 3 What r appeared appeared ap ape at first to be the accidental death of three of tho the A. A J. J Schneider family prominent here when Mr Mrs 1 Schneider and their son Albert I Schneider 35 5 died suddenly Thursday night developed tonight into the most sensational and baffling poison murder I mystery southern California has known in years Following the death of or the three I after eating hot cakes supposed to have contained metal polish chemical analysis by City Chemist E. E H. H Babcock Babcock Bab Bab- cock established tonight that enough arsenic to kill a dozen persons was mixed with the hot cakes the three ate shortly before their death The cakes had been mixed by Mrs Schneider Schneider Schneider der 73 and almost blind What was first supposed to have killed the three was metal polish sprinkled in the cake batter by mistake for salt The chemical analysis disclosed the metal polish in the cakes eaten by other members of the family but the arsenic ar arsenic arsenic ar- ar I only in the cakes cales eaten by the three Schneiders wh who 0 died The Tho metal I nile olish was 1 1 h harmless p V U n u Police and detectives directed their probe tonight into the question of or who put the arsenic in the hot bot cakes eaten by the three Schneiders who died So far far no no records have b been en found in any of the local drug stores showing that any member of the Schneider family bought arsenic Adding further sensation to the strange case detectives tonight were directing their search for a mystery woman who was seen nea- nea neathe the Schneider home at the vcr very time of the death of the Schneiders She was said to have been selling medicine of some kind Some advance the theory of an alien enemy poison plot scout this angle as improbable since no other cases of similar simBar nature were reported |