This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLennan, Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7681 Message Board Post: Lethal Dose of Rat Poison Fatal to Child Carl Thomas Polk, age two years, of Pasadena, died at the Mojave Medical Center Tuesday, May 12th several hours after drinking a bottle of rat poison. The little boy, with his parents was visiting at the C. O. McLennan home, his grandparents, in Rosamond when the youngster found the poison. He was brought to Mojave Medical Center for emergency treatment and thr Fire Dept. was called when a resusitator was needed. He died in spite of all efforts to save him The body was first taken to the O'Donnell Funeral Home but later removed to Kern General Hospital for post mortem examination by County pathologist Robert Huntington, Jr. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 14 May 1953