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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Singular case of poisoning by a boy. (search)
Singular case of poisoning by a boy. A remarkable case of attempted murder by poison has occurred lately, as we learn from the Burlington Free Press, at Montpelier, Vt. A little child of Hon. C. W. Willard, while drinking his milk, was seized with violent vomiting. The milk was examined and found to contain corrosive sublimate enough to kill a dozen men. The poison had evidently been put into the milk after it had been poured into the child's cup, and the sudden violent reaction of the child's stomach was all that saved its life. The wonder was, who could have done it — for the servants, a girl, and an Irish boy named John Roakes, were considered trusty, and were both exceedingly fond of the child. Finally suspicion fell upon Roakes, who confessed that he put the poison in the child's cup, not from any ill will to Mr. and Mrs. W., who had always treated him kindly, or to the baby, but simply from hatred to the servant girl, with whom he had some trivial quarrel, and on whom he