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Poisoned candy mystery lands on Ward's Island
LORENCE CAMPBELL a Ward's Island hospital AA is target of a poisoning plot after a mailed box of Boston Candy Stores royal gum drops tested for arsenic. Detective Carey probes suspects including matron Mrs Jestly and nurse Mrs Thorpe while tracing handwriting and a scrawled New York address to identify the sender.
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New York Herald Co
Lorence Campbell
New York State Hospital
Ward’s Island
New York City
New York Police Department
Jestly
Mr. King
King
Miss Campbell
Boston
New York
Carey
Campbell
Manhattan
Jessie Morrow
West Highty Fourth Street
Fourteenth Street
Third Avenue
Twenty-third Street
United States
Madison Square
Post Office Department
Sixth Avenue
Maybon