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Show FATHER IS Child Substituted an Acid For Gin in a Bottle Now York. June 17. Eight-year-old Ethel Jackson wanted water a few days ago to innke mud pies, but fearing fear-ing to ask her mother for It, she stole Into her father's bedroom and took his bottle of cln from the bureau. When tho child's cooking was done, It occurred to her that her father might miss the liquid, so she re-filled the bottle with some colorless liquid which she found In tho medicine cjos-et. cjos-et. The substitute proved to bo euI-phurlc euI-phurlc acid. The father, Edward Jackson, Jack-son, Is dying, at the Lincoln hospltnl from a draught of what he supposed to be gin. |