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Show DYING FROM EFFECTS OF POISON IN PUDDING Deadly Dish Is Left at a Theatrical Boarding-House by an Unknown Person. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Two persons who ate part of a pudding sent to a theatrical the-atrical boarding-house in "West Forty-third Forty-third street are dying in Roosevelt hospital, hos-pital, a third is in a critical condition, and the police are scouring that part of the city in an effort to locate the mes- senger who left the package at the door. It is believed that the sender of the package planned the death of the entire household with an idea of revenge for some unknown cause. Had the pudding reached the dinner table, as was intended, in-tended, the lives of a score of persons would have been imperiled. The colored housekeeper, her son (who acts as bell boy) and another negro lad were the victims. They ate some of the pudding before- meal time. A few minutes later they were writhing from the effects of arsenical poisoning. A young man left the pudding at the door, saying it had been sent by a caterer ca-terer in a nearby street. Fortunately, for the boarders, the next meal was some hours away and a wholesale poisoning pois-oning was averted. |