ALLEGED WHOLESALE POISONING.
A WOMAN IN. .COURT,
SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES.
'Mklboubne, June 15. The police are vigorously investigating the antecedents of MrsNeedlo, who is in custody on a charge of poisoning the two brothers Junker. The bodies ■of her husband and three children will probably be exhumed. Tho police are in posossion of information showing that her children displayed similar symptoms to Junker's. One child died in 1885, another in 1890, and a third in 1891. Her husband died in 1889. All four were insured for £100 a-piece, which Mrs Needle drew. Among the letters discovered is one from thoaccußed to a surviving brother of whom she was enamoured. It complains of her treatment at the bands of Mrs Junker, sen., when the latter came to take back the dead body oi her son Louis to Adelaide, and contains this sentence: "Remember. This day you cast) me off for your mother; you shall be motherless, for! shall kill her." ■
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 143, 16 June 1894, Page 5
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158ALLEGED WHOLESALE POISONING. Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 143, 16 June 1894, Page 5
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