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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.suicide,net.motss
Subject: Re: the Biology of Killer Apples
Message-ID: <165@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 15:09:02 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.165
Posted: Tue Feb 18 15:09:02 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 19:47:13 EST
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <1401@ames.UUCP> eugene@ames.UUCP writes:
>...what I heard from what was "a reliable source...." was that Turing
>refined the poison, coated an apple, and took a bite.

     This is the theory of Andrew Hodges, the author of Turing's biography,
_Alan Turing:  The Enigma_.  If I remember correctly, Hodges believed
himself to be the first person to put forward this theory.  We know that
there was a half-eaten apple beside Turing's bed, and that he died of
poisoning, but no one bothered to test the apple for poison.

     There is still some question of whether Turing committed suicide, but
finding poison on the apple would seem to confirm this.  The connection
between eating apples and the sexual "sins" for which Turing was vilified is
just too strong to be coincidental.

--Jamie.
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