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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:46 AM
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Hitman tried 'death by chocolate'
BBC

A 1920s hitman tried to assassinate a senior policeman by sending him poisoned chocolates, records released by the National Archives have shown.

Walter Tatam laced walnut whip chocolates with weedkiller in a plot to kill Metropolitan Police commissioner Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood.

Sir William thought the chocolates were a gift from his daughter Beryl and ate them - but survived the poisoning.

He launched an investigation which eventually lead to Tatam's conviction.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4378599.stm
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:59 AM
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1. Sir William had eaten the sweets
- which arrived in a package at his office in November 1922 - after a hearty lunch of pork and apple sauce, bread and butter pudding and Guinness, the records showed.

GUINNESS IS GOOD FOR YOU.

Within minutes of eating them, he was in agony, and called for a glass of brandy to help control the pain.

BRANDY TOO.
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