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Show CHILDREN HAVE BEEN POISONED BY CANDY Paterson,, X. J., March 11. Seventeen Seven-teen hundred pupils In the Paterson public schools have been warned by the school authorities to abstain form eating candy unth an investigation has determined tt3 cause of tho death of William BIder, a pupil of school No 4 Circumstances indicate that ho wus poisoned by candy purchased near the school. Within the last month several children chil-dren attending tho school have been compelled to remain at homo on account ac-count of illness, tholr symptoms in most cases indicating ptomaine poisoning. pois-oning. Samples of the suspected candy have been seized and It Is qxpected ( that several arrests will follow. |