UNHAPPY WIVES.
WIDOWHOOD BETTER.
Old Witch Supplies Fatal Love Potions. TWELVE HUSBANDS POISONED. (United Service.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 17. The "Daily Mail's" Vienna correspondent states that Anna Pistova, aged 92, the so-called "Witch of Vladimirovac," near Belgrade, will be tried on murder charges, together with the widows of six wealthy farmers, as a result of an accusation that she practised for a long time the supply of deadly love potions to unhappy Serbian wives.
The police regarded her as a harmless herbalist until the mysterious death of Burgomaster Carina, of Novoselo, last year. Madame Carina, a pretty woman of 29, led a cat and dog life with her husband.
The bodies of Carina and twelve other husbands were exhumed and the autopsies disclosed vegetable poisoning. Pistova says that it was the wives' fault if they overdosed their husbands, but the widows declare that they merely tried to revitalise their husbands' love. They had not intended to kill them.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 7
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