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Show POISON IN WHISKEY. PECULIAR CASE AT COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. Man DrFnks From Bottle Given as a New Year's Present and Dies in Convulsions. Mrs. J. E. Bailey, wife of a coachman coach-man of George N. Kilborne, of Colorado Colo-rado Springs, Colo., was declared to be out of danger from strychnine poisoning pois-oning taken into her system Monday night by drinking from a whisky bottle from which her husband had drunk. He died in agony at midnight. The case promises to develop one of the greatest murder mysteries in the history his-tory of the Pike's Peak region. Mrs. Bailey, since her recovery, tells a story that indicates that some one deliberately deliber-ately poisoned hes.. husband by means of a bottle of whisky given him as a New Year's present. The coroner and police are investigating, and state that it is a case of strychnine poisoning. Mrs. Bailey took a drink of the liquor after her husband had been thrown into convulsions, in order to see what was in the bottle. |