A news item from Chicago says:
Robert Wahl, one of the foremost chemists in the United States,
with a knowledge of drugs and subtle poisons far beyond the ken
of the average alchemist, is charged with threatening to kill
his wife by giving her a flower to smell.
It would have been a murder that no latter-day coroner or
detective could have proved--something unheard of since the days
of the Borgias.
The deadliest influence may be conveyed to the mind and soul as well as
to the senses by the most delicate and apparently beautiful means.
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