BELGIAN MURDER TRIAL.
PRISONER SENtEN^ED^iII^M ■ ■■■''■ DEATH^,..^;jp|||^^ >ustbajuam tso *.z. . cua^:fMm^o^m .....■• Henri dering . his ' ■sißter-m-law,\;;;,WS^| guilty and sentenced:to. [An araazing poisoning revealed by tne trial of ■ Mazieres who was. .made the Legion of Honour;for his vices, l)e Mazieres was charged the Ghent Assizes with murdering his sister-in-law, Valerie, by.-means oi" L strychnine tablets and forging her will l in favour of himself. Valerie died in May, 1922, after many attadks of \ sickness. No ; suspicion was directed ■',, against de Mazieres for some time on- '■ til he hinted that Alice, the dead woman's sister, was responsible for Valerie's death. Tie police then made an examination of de Mazieres' career • ( and found that he had posed as a vicomte, and that he had managed t to marry three rich women though he , had served two rears' imprisonment for ■> forging the will of a French *' -, senator who was a relative of 'his mother.] ' / -«
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 9
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