Mrs, Jones was an enterprising business woman if not a very suecessful one, She had other business interests in addition to the Blue Anchor Hotel and at times handled considerable sums of money. Her husband was a heavy drinker but not a bad-natured man. Nearly every night he drank more than was good for him, and on the morning after it was his invariable custom to mix for himself a dose of Bromo salts to get rid of the ensuing headache. The salts were kept in a bottle in a public room in the hotel. On March 28 there-was a party ut the hotel and Mr. Jones drank heavily. The following morning he came downstairs late, poured himself out a dose of salts, complained that they did not "Fizz," drank them, cried out that they were bitter, and imif
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