The following lamentable event occurred lately at Knelston, near Swansea, and ought to operate as a caution to those who are in the habit of using poison to destroy rats or other vermin.
Two youths, brothers, of the name of Hoskins, the one 17, the other 19 years of age, being in a progressive state of recovery from a fever, requested their mother to give them, instead of a medicine prepared for them, some brimstone and treacle.
A basin, containing a preparation of arsenic for destroying rats, being placed on a shelf, and the unfortunate youths supposing it to be brimstone and treacle prepared for them by their mother, took each a portion of this deadly poison, and shortly after expired in the most excruciating torture.
On being opened, the cause, of this calamity was instantly discovered. Verdict of the coroner's jury - Accidental Death.
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