Poison in His Coffee

1914

Neighbor Runs Four Miles to Save Man From Wife's Mistake

Passaic, N. J., Jan. 23. — Stanley Ferra, of Lodi, ran four miles from Lodi to a silk mill at Dundee Lake to save the life of Fred Godolen, an employee of the silk company. He succeeded.

Mrs. Godolen in preparing her husband's luncheon, poured his coffee in a bottle that contained poison. When she discovered her mistake she ran to the house of Ferra, next door, and asked him to go to the mill and warn her husband.

Ferra would not rely on the telephone, so he ran all the way. There was enough poison in the bottle, Mrs. Godolen said, to kill ten persons.