AFTER FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
CHEMIST MAY BE CLEARED. . i CONVICTED FOR POISONING. ' " 11 PARIS. March 2f>. , Forty-five years ago a chemist named < Duval \vas| sentenced to imprisonment ' for life for poisoning his wife with arsenic. He served 24 years of his sen- ' tence and was tlien liberated, but he •' always proclaimed his innocence. Pro- ! minent scientists, owing to the advance ' of knowledge, secured Duval's pardon 1 in 1902 on tbe ground that the small ' quantity of arsenic found in the woman's ' body could have got there accidentally. Now the Academy of Medicine states : that a milligram of arsenic in the human body is harmless, and as less than that f amount was found in the body of Duval's wife, the Minister of Justice has ordered a new inquiry to see if the verdict can be quashed.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) j
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 74, 27 March 1923, Page 5
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