Word: poisoner
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...preliminaries of a murder trial began last week in Cincinnati. For George Remus, once potent bootleg boss, later a convict, they were poison. They had shot dead his wife, Emogene, in a public park. Now he had to produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky...
...Brooklyn, Mrs. Helen Iwinski, mother of three, called Joseph Iwinski, 16, her feeble-minded eldest son, into the kitchen. Tired of his being mocked and scorned, with fierce love for her weakest child, she poured out two cups of poison. One she gave to Joseph, one she drank herself. Mother and son died...
...ailments. His eyes glaze with fever. Dysentery sets in. The dentist cautions him against pyorrhea, for his teeth are loosening. Finally the doctor orders him to give up work for a long vacation in the country and he recovers. What has occurred in such cases is an insidious mercurial poisoning, the result of inhaling mercury vapors escaped from leaking seams in the apparatus. The illness may be a long time coming or a short time. Mercury is cumulative in effect, depending almost entirely upon the quantity of poison absorbed, very little upon the time of absorption...
Scientists in the General Electric Co. laboratories have invented an instrument to register the presence of as little as one part of mercury in 20,000,000 parts of atmosphere. Before the poison is detected by symptoms of illness in drooping employes, a coating of yellow sulphide on a strip of paper gives the signal by turning black (the result of contact between selenium sulphide and mercury). The degree of blackness is photographed by shining a light through the strip of yellow sulphide. If the sulphide has turned dark, less light will penetrate; if black, no light will penetrate. This...
...suggests, a werewolf. His dog is a jet wolf-dog whose name means Death. His wife, Miriam, has turned into a spiritual succubus, slowly extracting from her lovers their health and sanity and a psychic poison which she hopes to distill to a potency that will humble Richard Pride. Their daughter, Janet, flowers like a enamel blossom. Wilfred Hough is the bloodless wraith of what was a bright young secretary a few years ago, before Miriam used him. A young voodoo Negress moves through the house, darkness serving darkness in silence, and with a small drum. Finally, there...