POISONING COLONEL PHAYRE.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 232, 8 March 1875, Page 3

POISONING COLONEL PHAYRE.

The Bombay Gazette describes the attempt to poison Colonel Phayre thus:—"Col. Phayre is in the habit of drinking a glass of sngare 1 water and fresh pummelo juice every morning after he comes home from a walk. On Monday morning (November 9th) the glass was brought to him as usual, and he swallowed a mouthful of the ' sherbet,' but then, luckily for himself, fancied there was something wrong with the taste. He was on the point of throwing the rest of the drink away, when he thought he noticed a peculiar sediment in the glass, and he thereupon showed it to the residency surgeon, Dr Seward, who at once said, * This looks like arsenic, but I will soon let you know.' Dr Seward took the glass home, and having analysed its contents, found arsenic enough to have killed the resident if he had drunk the whole draught. The correctness of this analysis has now been confirmed by the acting professor of chemistry and Government analyst at Bombay, Dr Wellington Gray, and it is certain that Colonel Phayre has had a providential escape. The small quantity he drank has, we are happy to say, had no appreciable effect."