3-Year-Old Son and 19-Months-Old Daughter of Ellingtons Poisoned by Paris Green, March 20, 1922

Poisoned on Paris Green

Henderson, March 18—Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ellington, one a boy, 3 years old, and the other an 18-months-old girl, wee poisoned Friday by eating Paris green at their home a few miles below the city near Garrett’s store. They found the poison, ordinarily used to kill bugs in Irish potato plants, in a bag in an outhouse and, besides eating it, put some in a soft drink bottle, got it on their hoses and hands and otherwise scattered it over the house. When medical aid arrived, the children had been vomiting as a result of the poison to their systems, and the boy was declared to be in serious condition.

From The Greensboro Patriot, March 20, 1922. Paris green contained arsenic.