New Bern, June 5—three small children were poisoned near Snow Hill, according to reports here, death resulting several hours later in a hospital in Kinston, from their eating biscuits containing arsenate of lead. The victims were children of Mr. and Mrs. Mat Hill.
Mr. Hill had left a package of arsenate of lead on the table, and Mrs. Hill mistook it for flower, the report said. She attempted to make biscuits with it, and when she found it would not work, threw it out, but without washing the tray proceeded to make up the biscuits from flour. When they had baked, she placed them on the table, and telling the children not to touch them, she stepped out. When she returned, she found that each of the trio had eaten some of the biscuit after Mrs. Hill had discovered the nature of the contents of the package.
From page 2 of The Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, June 6, 1926
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