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iba,re-rid-leiritor•om/ithier-ver:an-thetorPOISONED WELLban NO POISON YET FOUND XVunion3NCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AT UNIVERSITY.Theish-itu-With the application of eoM science to the latest poisoned well story, which originated in Poweshiek county last week, another supposition of an alleged German .atrocity is gradually passing into 'the realm of things tnat never happened.Wednesday morning a beggar “ | drove into the yard of a. E. Eirp, .e'a farmer living three miles north of Hardwick, and told Mrs. Eirp he was selling dress goods. It Jglt;KI appears that the lady was not much ;°.m impressed by his wares. She re-■ ,1Xi plied that she did not wish to aim purchase any goods at that time.:on‘jThe beggar illy concealed his wrath m at her reply and vented his feelings in a few sarcastic remarks.Hard Itajs For Ileggars.“It looks pretty dry around j here,” he stated, gazing at the! fields and grain. Mrs. Eirp concurred that it had been “somewhat dry.”“Well, I hope it always stays dry,' he added maliciously, and led his horse to the water tank to allow it to drink.After the animal had quenched its thirst, it is reported that the! unlucky beggar took what appeared to he a package from his pocket and drop something, poison pre-tpr_ sumably, into the tank.d | -A® soon as h® left Mrs. Eirp ob-tained a bottle and filled it with *her a sample of water from the tank,' afterward covering up the tank to prevent stock from drinking the * polluted water. The sample was e sent to the University and placed I 1 10 in the hands of the city Chemist. ?en 3. J. Hfnman, for analysis. In rotI* the mean time efforts were made ocal to arrest the alleged beggar, a German, of course.IVsedANCGuinea I'lgs Unharmed.The water has been analized for traces of arsenic or bacteria which might. ha\e been placed in the tank to poison the stock. So far( nothing has been found except1 the natural evidences of a rather ■ i dirty well. Mr Hinman is not 'yet prepared to say the water U an ,free from poison, hut the popular ’m guinea pig test has been resorted0ne,to without damaging results, Sev-^is(eral of the patient little animals ina-jwere inoculated with the water !'°m taken from the tank and, this morning after foi tv-eight hours have elapsed, the pigs appear tlt;j any^be quite well and as happy as •ica. could be expected0 aolis. in aA Possible Explanation.If the poison theory is comptete-• jn ly disapproved by further analysis j of the water St is not unlikely that the hypothesis could he anisesof sweied by supposing the beggarnin-•eadany.naytook a bottle of whisky from his pocket instead of poison, with which to swallow his wrath, and perhaps washed his hands in the tank without purposly intending to pollute the water.fa
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Iowa City Citizen
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Sat, Sep 01, 1917
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