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Show WOMAN THIS il l fTSm. J I Mrs. William Howard Uses H Spraying Chemical to Dust H 1 Her Breadboard H GRANDSON DIES AND I ANOTHER IS DYING Seven Others Seriously 111 Be- fore Cause of Disorder Is H Discovered H (Special Dispatch.) BRIGHAM. June 15. Mrs. William Howard "used arsenate of lead, mis-taking mis-taking it for flour In dusting her bread j board. Hor graudson, William Young, three years old. is dead, as a result jH 'of eating the bread, another grandson, Vaughn Young, 5 years old. is not ex-jpqeted ex-jpqeted to live through the day, and seven members of the family arc so-riously so-riously ill. Last Tuesday William W. Howard ! spent the day spraying tho trees in his IH orchard with arsenate of lead. Fin- ishing his work In the evening he VM placed a. small bag containing the white poison in the cupboard. Thought It Flour. I Mrs. Howard, after supper, started to mix a batch of bread. Going to the cupboard she saw the bag that vM resembled a flour sack and sprinkled jH a handful of the white powder over vM tho bread board. Every member of the family took ill following the meal and a doctor was summoned. Suspecting beefsteak tM the family had eaten as the cause of tM the illness the doctor sent a portion IH to State Chemist Herman Harms. Re-turns Re-turns from the chemist sho.wed that Lilt! IllCill (JUUliLlIlUU lIUllllllo IIIIUULUI. jH Last night Dewey Howard, wife and IH two babies arrived in Brlgham from Holbrook, Tda., to visit Mr. Howard's parents. CheTs.tX,he?-t4J)ally:rld gonoto "bell when the visitors arrived and they set about to provide a meal. Warning Issued. Mrs. Howard remarked that the bread tasted bitter and, refused to cat It. She warned the others not to cat I any more. Shortly after. -the meal Howard, his wife and twT children were seized with violent cramps. Two doctors were summoned and after treatment they were said to be out of dangor. Arsenic poisoning was sus-pected sus-pected by the doctor from tho symp- It was not until the family began to discuss tho poisoning that the truth was discovered. The cldor Mrs. How-aid How-aid remembered that she had sprin-kled sprin-kled white substance from a bag in the cupboard on the bread board. Her husband then recalled that ho left the bag containing tho arsenate of lead there. Tho rest of the family was pro- tH nouncedout of danger by the-doctors IH this morning, but they say Vaughn, the "five-year-old child, will not sur- jH vive over a few hours. IH nn IH |