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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Report from St. Thomas on an atrocity in the Republican division on the Magdalena River: European Spaniard Joseph Carbonero, after 28 years in military hospitals, confessed to poisoning over 400 American soldiers with arsenic in Tarbaco and Baranca hospitals before cutting his own throat in Sabana Larga. Bulletin from Cartagena Gazette, Aug. 27, 1815.
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St. Thomas, Nov. 28.
We have been politely favored with
a translation of the said bulletin published
in a Carthagena Gazette of the 27th of
Aug. mentioning the following atrocious
occurrence:
Lieut. Col. Don Juan Salvador Narva-
rez, commanding the republican division.
on the low river Magdalen, amongst other
things informs the government of the
following occurrence, of the most atro-
cious kind: The European Spaniard
Joseph Carbonero, employed for the
space of more than 28 years in the mili-
tary hospitals, married in the country
and with three children, cut his own
throat in Sabana Larga, declaring before
he died, that he poisoned more than 400
soldiers, all Americans, in the hospitals
of Tarbaco and Baranca, by mixing the
medicines administered to them with ar-
senic. This horrible deed of Carbonero
tortured his own conscience to such a
pitch, that it caused him to deprive him-
self of his existence.
General quarters at Carthagena, 26th
Aug. 1815, 5th of the independence.
MARIANNO MONTILLO,
Major General.
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Carthagena
Event Date
26th Aug. 1815
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more than 400 american soldiers poisoned; joseph carbonero committed suicide.
Event Details
Lieut. Col. Don Juan Salvador Narva-rez reported that Joseph Carbonero, a European Spaniard employed over 28 years in military hospitals, poisoned more than 400 American soldiers in Tarbaco and Baranca hospitals by mixing arsenic into their medicines, then cut his own throat in Sabana Larga, confessing before death due to tortured conscience.