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POISONED BY STRYCHNINE
TO EXHUME FATHER’S BODY
Suspicion at Canfield that the Elder Perkins also Died from Poison
[Welland Tribune, 25 January 1907]
Canfield Jan. 23: It is now stated that Crown Attorney Murphy has ordered the disinterment of John Perkins, father of the late Henry Perkins, who died some eighteen months ago, an aged gentleman very highly respected. The cause of death was diagnosed as cancer of the stomach. It is now surmised that the trouble was possibly the same as his son’s who was poisoned by strychnine on Christmas Day last.
Mrs. Mattie Perkins, the widow of Henry Perkins, who died at Canfield on Christmas of Strychnine poisoning is a grand-daughter of the late Robert Currie, the well-known soap manufacturer.
[PHOTO: People’s Press, 29 January 1907]
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