Mrs. M. C. Pittman, nee, Miss [illegible] Douglass, a cousin of Mrs. Jas. A. McLean and Gillis Douglass died in Milton Saturday from strychnine poisoning, and her husband narrowly escaped death from the same cause. It is not known how the drug came to be taken, and there is a certain amount of mystery surrounding the whole affair. No inquest was [conducted,] the body being taken to Westville for burial.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]