Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 1 | Prison Inmates Become Magnets, Doctors Puzzled

j , PRISON INMATES BECOME MAGNETS, DOCTORS PUZZLED i ALBANY, N. Y., April 5. Botulinus poisoning has taken an unusual form at Dannemora, ! state prison. Thirty prisoners j now suffering from the disease, it is said, are "full of electricity," electric-ity," their bodies active as mag- ; nets for small pieces of metal i and paper. They are thought ( to have become affected I through eating salmon which was packed in tins, according to I a report by T3r. Ransom, the I prison surgeon. I The malady first appeared ' several weeks ago, and caused the death of two prisoners and loss of sight to others.