Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 10/30/1903.
Charles Wyngate of Farmington Is Killed By Strychnine.
    Charles Wyngate of Farmington, aged 60 years is dead from poisoning by strychine. Mrs. Wyngate, who has been much troubled by rats, made two pies the other day. One of these she prepared for table use; in the other she put a large dose of strychnine. It was the intention of Mrs. Wyngate to place the rat pie on the floor of the closet, but she neglected to do so, and her husband, coming in hungry when she was not in the room, took the first pie he saw and ate it. Unfortunately it was the wrong pie. The coroner’s jury censured Mrs. Wyngate for leaving the poison in a manner so easily mistakable.
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