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Governor Orders Investigation into Death of J.B. Solomon, Sept. 1, 1925

Governor McLean ordered a chemist’s investigation into the death of J.B. Solomon of Richmond county, who is believed to have died of poison. The effort will be to find out if the man was poisoned or died from food poisoning His widow married two weeks after his death after aiding the man she married to escape trouble with the insurance money of her first husband.

From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Sept. 1, 1925

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