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"Aconitine?" questioned Penfield, and the reporters, scenting the sensational, leaned forward eagerly so as not to miss the deputy coroner's answer. "Aconitine, an active poison," he explained. "It is the alkaloid of aconite, and generally fatal in its results."
I was at work upon aconite when Sauvresy died; and he was poisoned with aconitine." "Ah, with aconitine," said M. Lecoq, surprised. "It's the first time that I ever met with that poison. Is it a new thing?" "Not exactly. Medea is said to have extracted her deadliest poisons from aconite, and it was employed in Rome and Greece in criminal executions." "And I did not know of it!
"Evidently Turnbull put down his pill box before getting a glass of water, and in his attack of giddiness accidentally opened your box of aconitine pills, Mrs. Brewster, instead of his own, and swallowed a fatal dose, thinking they were nitroglycerine." Mrs. Brewster bowed her head in agreement. "That must have been it," she said.
"Ferguson believes that he put the dose of aconitine in the glass of water which Jimmie asked for," explained Kent, and would have continued his remarks, but a scream from Barbara startled him. "There, look at the window," she cried. "I saw a face peering in. Look quick, Harry, look!"
"The tests of aconitine are not sufficiently well known to permit of the isolation of it in a body. Bouchardat tried ioduret of potassium, but his experiment was not successful." "The deuce!" said M. Lecoq. "That's annoying." The doctor smiled benignly. "Reassure yourself," said he. "No such process was in existence so I invented one." "Ah," cried Plantat. "Your sensitive paper!" "Precisely."
The police contention was that Yorke-Bannerman somehow managed to put the stuff into the milk beforehand; my own theory was as counsel for the accused" he blinked his fat eyes "that old Prideaux had concealed a large quantity of aconitine in the bed, before his illness, and went on taking it from time to time just to spite his nephew." "And you BELIEVE that, Mr. Mayfield?"
OUR contention was I speak now as my old friend's counsel that Scott Prideaux, getting as tired of life as we were all tired of him, and weary of this recurrent worry of will-making, determined at last to clear out for good from a world where he was so little appreciated, and, therefore, tried to poison himself." "With aconitine?" I suggested, eagerly.
"Your dead man was murdered by means of aconite, of which, you know, the active principle is the deadly alkaloid aconitine." Craig pulled down from the shelf above him one of his well-thumbed standard works on toxicology. He turned the pages and read: "Pure aconite is probably the most actively poisonous substance with which we are acquainted.
The poison used was found in the urine of those which died and also those which recovered. The author succeeded in rescuing animals poisoned by alcohol, strychnine, chloral, and aconitine. With morphine, curare, and hypnone, the method of elimination failed, although ten per cent. in quantity of the body weight of the animal was used in the saline injection.
Now, Ferguson, to put your charges against Rochester in concrete form, you believe that he was insanely jealous of Jimmie Turnbull, that he recognized him in the Police Court in his burglar disguise, slipped a dose of aconitine in a glass of water which Turnbull drank, and after declaring that his friend had died from angina pectoris, disappeared. Is that all the case you have against him?"
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