Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father-in-law. "He ate mushrooms at night," mourns Katerina Izmailova. "He dies like a rat?" bumbles the bibulous old priest. "That could not be so. A rat just dies. A man appears before...
...inquisitor heard Police Sergeant William Watkins say that about 25 babies had died at the Brooks farm and that he had "good reason to believe that some of these little victims came to their deaths by means of poison or violence or consequences of some criminal...
...assure that all will return, actually makes the suicide pay double for his ticket to Death. Far too poor to pay President Hayashi 3 yen (85?) for a ticket to Suicide Point, many of Tokyo's suicides, which average four per day, die super-cheaply by eating rat poison...
...following year 20,160 people jumped out of windows, shot themselves, turned on the gas, or swigged poison-highest suicide rate recorded since...
...books, in the queer characters he ran up against, in "platonic"' friendships with women students. Finally he sent for Neloa. But by now their marriage was too near the rocks. When he told Neloa that he loved another woman and intended to leave her, Neloa despairingly drank poison. Too late Vridar knew he loved her best...