Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-14 | Page 2 | One Dead, Three in Bad Condition

ONE DEAD, THREE . IN BAD CONDITION Expressman Drinks From a Broken Bottle of Whisky With Fatal . v Results'. ... CINCINNATI. May 14. One man dead and four, others are in a critical condU tlon aa a result of tampering with an express package 'that arrived last night at the Cincinnati warehouse of, the Adams Express company. At 9 o'clock a bottle was received from' Memphis addressed to Kate Nobbe. 607 Harris street, Cincinnati In handling the bottle J. B. Picker discovered a leak. On ' of the men procured a tin cup and all took a drink. They became violently 111 In a few moments and 'were rushed to the city hospital. Flcker died on arriving arriv-ing there and William Stevens. George Eberle. Louis Burbank and William Daly are reported in a serious condition. On I examination it was found that the bottle contained arsenic and whisky. Mrs. Kate Nobbe said that she could not say what the bottle contained, but that It was undoubtedly sent by a woman employed by a relative who lives in Memphis. The relative, she said, visited vis-ited her three weeks ago. and since that time she had been receiving packages and obscene letters from Memphis. It was Jealousy, she said, that prompted the sending of the package.