MASS POISONING
HUNGARIAN SENSATION. ANOTHER CASE INVESTIGATED. MURDER OF STEPFATHER. (United Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.5 a. 111.) ’ LONDON, February 2. The /‘Daily Telegraph’s” Budapest correspondent says that the police at Szolnok are investigating fresh allegations which are believed likely to reveal further mass poisonings similar to those recently before the courts. The Public Prosecutor ordered the arrest of a peasant, .Tudienne Nadas, who is charged with poisoning lus stepfather, Joseph Moizik, who was a local magistrate. Nadas ordered Ins step-father’s coffin six months before death. , , . A post-mortem revealed a large quantity of arsenic, differing from that employed by the murderess of Theiss V alalarming discovery was also made in another Hungarian town, Bikesosaha, that 19 pounds of arsenic bacl disappeared from the hospital, ioiu pounds of which were found in a sugar jar in a local shop. The rest disappeared untraced. It is a mystery how the shopkeeper possessed such an enormous quantity of poison.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 96, 3 February 1930, Page 5
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