Women Puts Blood in Man's Coffee

Pittsburgh, 1909
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LOVE PHILTER ADMINISTERED

Woman Who Surrendered to Pittsburgh Police Says She Killed North East Man.

Pittsburgh, April 17. - Declaring that she caused the death of William Anderson, at North East, Pa., about ten months ago, by administering a love philter to him in a cup of coffee, a woman who gave the name of Emma Baker and her home as North East, today asked the police to place her under arrest. She is being held to await an answer from the North East police. The woman told Police Captain Murray that she inflicted a wound in her breast and extracted a drop of blood which she put in a cup of coffee, unknown to Anderson and gave it to him to drink.

--The Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York, April 17, 1909, page 1.

Comment: Obviously that wouldn't kill you, so there must be something more to it.