Peggy you are correct in that it is rat poison. Robin R Inge "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away"     ________________________________ From: Peggy <findingfamily@gmail.com> To: txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 3:27:57 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Homicide I believe Strychnine is rat poison. If they are calling it a homicide, then it means that he didn't accidentally ingest it, it was put in the food. Kimberly Carrillo wrote: > Okay, I have a weird question.  My mother's brother died when he was 4 years > old and I am just now looking at his death certificate.  He died of food > poisoning, but the certificate says "strychnine poisoning - homicidal". > This is the first I have ever heard of this.  Was that a different way that > they called food poisoning at that time?  This would have been 1927 in La > Grange, TX. >  > Thanks, > Kimm >  > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sounds homicidal to me. You should check the newspapers or court records of that place and time, and see if there were any criminal procedings. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Inge" <wolfhuntress2002@yahoo.com> To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Homicide Peggy you are correct in that it is rat poison. Robin R Inge "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away" ________________________________ From: Peggy <findingfamily@gmail.com> To: txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 3:27:57 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Homicide I believe Strychnine is rat poison. If they are calling it a homicide, then it means that he didn't accidentally ingest it, it was put in the food. Kimberly Carrillo wrote: > Okay, I have a weird question. My mother's brother died when he was 4 > years > old and I am just now looking at his death certificate. He died of food > poisoning, but the certificate says "strychnine poisoning - homicidal". > This is the first I have ever heard of this. Was that a different way that > they called food poisoning at that time? This would have been 1927 in La > Grange, TX. > > Thanks, > Kimm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message