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Peter Shelley person

born: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)🌐 Q103580244id: p_peter-shelley_4b009a

also known as: Peter Shelly, Mr. Shelly

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Summary:  A man who was poisoned by tainted bread at Mr. Piper's place and narrowly survived.
Completeness: 100/100 Grade A
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Claims (9)

consumed

poisoned bread
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…
melted lard
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…

rode_to

cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…

suffered

cramps
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…

survived

poisoning
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…

witnessed

poisoning from tainted bread
cited from Keeney, W… (1891) · +2 more
Wood, St. Louis Mo.; J. E. Hoopes, Thos. E. Young, Kansas City, Mo.; H. D. Motter, H. Constable, S. H. Fields, St. Joe, Mo.; W. H. Se- bastan, Simon Juda, Mark Eyekeil, A. Elsasser, H. Gedelson, S. Bloom, San Francisco, Cal. ; Chas. E. M…
poisoning incident
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…
poisoned yeast
cited from It is quite evident that someone did poison the… (1891)
It is quite evident that someone did poison the yeast from the effect of which Mr. Shelly came near losing his life. The matter should be thor- oughly investigated by the next grand jury.
poisoning attempt by bread at Mr. Piper's
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-02-06 (1891) · +1 more
h, Tucson, A. T. ; E. M. Turner, Wilmington, O.; E. Wolf, Baltimore, O.; O. G. Williams, Sam Sammuels, Cincinnati, O.; Sam Feitlebaum, Atlanta, Ga.; W. J. Burnes, Matt W. Smith, Chicago, 111. ; W. A. Jones, Mineral Point, Wis.; R. L. Packard,…

Sources (6)

A Poisoning Case

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

A Poisoning Case

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

It is quite evident that someone did poison the…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

Keeney, W…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

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