SCIENTIFIC MURDER
AN EXTRAORDINARY CRIME
POISONED WITH GERMS. BIG LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES. (Per Press Association, Copyright.) (Received October 29,2 .30 p.m.) * ' PARIS, October 28. The Qirard case, one of the strangest m the history of scientific crime, has opened. Henri Girard, an insurance agent, with two men and two women accomplices, was charged v^th poisoning five persons with typhoid germs . after heavily insuring tiheir lives. Two victims died and Girard has since* died m prison/ One accomplice/ of Girard' s was Mrs Doneteau, whom Girard secured to induce one 1 , Godel, to insure his life for £23,000. Godel was soon afflicted with a i»js- < terdous illness, but recovered. l jhe next insured Delmas for £1600, ; bought typhoid germs, and invited * Delmas to dinner at her house, ! where Delmas wa-s stricken with ty- j phoid. After drinking an aperient he recovered. One fatal case was ascribed to mushroom poisoning. A maiJ | says she was forbidden to tou^h the victims' plates after dinner, Girard and Deneteau washing the plates with antiseptics. The other victim was a j girl. At first the life insui.*uc j people , were suspicious of .this case, and m- i vestigations led to a revel nion of a : previous mystery. j
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9372, 29 October 1921, Page 5
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