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But its symptoms were, in the one case as well as in the other, unmistakable, and such as no other cause of illness would produce. Two pills were found in the boy's play-box, one of which was said to contain aconitine. Such was the simple case which occupied six days to try. The jury were not long in coming to a conclusion, and returned into court with a verdict of "Guilty."
Yet aconitine, strychnine, and antimony have played their part in murders, and chloroform has been used for destruction as well as for salvation. Dr.
There had been a very keen rivalry between us in science. He was the only man in England whose career might impinge upon mine. I had this supreme chance of putting him out of my way. He could not deny that he had been giving his uncle aconitine. I could prove that his uncle had died of aconitine. He could not himself account for the facts he was absolutely in my power.
"However, I saw Colonel McIntyre tear off the paper wrapping and open my package of pills just before dinner, and when I heard that Jimmie had died from aconitine I I " she stammered and stopped short. "You suspected I had murdered him?" asked McIntyre softly. "Yes," she looked appealingly at him.
Sulphide of ammonium gives sulpho-cyanide of ammonium. This develops a blood-red colour with perchloride of iron, bleached by corrosive sublimate. Root and leaves. Poisonous property depends upon an alkaloid, aconitine. Aconite is one of the constituents of St. Jacob's Oil. Symptoms.
Brewster stated slowly. "From what I overheard, he paid Grimes to let him inside the house." Kent looked perplexed as he gazed first at the widow and then at Helen, who had sunk back in her chair. "Mrs. Brewster," he began after a pause. "Who gave Jimmie your aconitine pills which Grimes left on the hall table?" "The murderer." "Yes, of course."
Suddenly he dropped two back in the box and touched the third pill with the tip of his tongue; not content with that he crushed it in his fingers, sniffed the drug, and again tested it with his tongue. His expression was peculiar as he looked up at Kent. "These are not aconitine pills," he stated positively. "They are nitro-glycerine. How did they get in this box?"
No doubt he didn't like the aconitine when it came to the pinch for it DOES pinch, I can tell you and repented him of his evil. Yorke-Bannerman suggested Sebastian as the second opinion; the uncle acquiesced; Sebastian was called in, and, of course, being fresh from his researches, immediately recognised the symptoms of aconitine poisoning." "What! Sebastian found it out?" I cried, starting.
"But what did you do with the aconitine pills?" demanded Barbara. "I left the box on the hail table, miss " "Great heavens!" Barbara stared at the butler, then without a word she raced up the staircase and disappeared through the open door of Mrs. Brewster's bedroom.
"He committed a murder," he went on, "by means of aconitine then an almost unknown poison; and, after committing it, his heart being already weak, he was taken himself with symptoms of aneurism in a curious form, essentially similar to these; so that he died before the trial a lucky escape for him."
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