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Show I ATTEMPT TO-POISON CHILDREN WITH 6UM FULTON, Mo., Sept 14. Charged 1 with attempting to murder members j of the family of Edward McPheeters I of Concord, Mo., with poisoned chew-ing chew-ing gum, Jeff Woods, a leading stockman, stock-man, was placed on trial here today. McPheeters' children found a pack age of chewing gum in the front yard and, after chewing it, became (11 Physicians Phy-sicians said they had been poisoned. At Woods' preliminary hearing, Mrs. McPheeters' testified that after her children became ill, she watched and several days later saw Woods throw into the ard a package of gum like that found there before. She said a chemist found tho gum to be coated with strychnine. Ill feeling between tho two men. It ri Is said, grew out of a slander suit In 1 I which Mrs. McPheeters testified : , against Woods. |