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Show DID HUSBAND SEEK . TO-POISON WIFE? LOS ANGELES, juaa . The blttar talte of sixty grains of strychnins in less than a piat of milk aavad Mrs. Ralph Bafel, tha yeaog mother a( a six months ' old baby,' t ram death by poison yesterday. Has huabaaqV Ralph RafeC aged 17, Oa anaatger af tha Electrical Maintenance company,- kaaj been arrested. J atra. Ksrei started to unak tha milk at . her luncheon, aad tha first swallow was so obnoxious as to eause her to leave .the remainder untouched. Boon afterwards she became sick and aaat for . a physician. Ha detected the symptoms of strychnine and his patient told him about tha milk. Ha examined It and than reported to tha police. . Tha arrest of Rafel followed a statement state-ment made by hia wife,, who aaid bar husband about a month ago urged her to get a divorce, saving aha had tuberculosis. tuber-culosis. Two weeks later, aha said, her mother in Milwaukee received a letterfrom her husband, telling her hot to be surprised if sha should bear of her daughter's death. On Wedneaday, she says, sha bought some strychnine at his request "to kill bugs." When arrested Rafel denied any wrongdoing, but later told tha polite where the bottle containing a remnant of tha strychnine was to be found. Mrs. Rafel did not take enough of tha poison to do her serious harm. The Susntity found in the milk Was suf-cient suf-cient to bava killed several parsons. |