DEATH SENTENCE.
FRENCH POISONING CASE. A NURSE'S MURDERS. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received April 28th, 8.50 p.m.) PARIS, April 27. A sensational poisoning case is reported 'from Nimes, where Antoinette Sierri, a middle-aged nurse, was found guilty of poisoning sis persons, and was sentenced to death. Public indignation was such that 60 gendarmes were necessary to control the crowd at the Palais de Justice Sierri administered pyralion, which is used as a viticulture to kill grubs, and is heavily laden with arsenic. Her first victim was an elderly maiden lady, with whom Sierri had no quarrel. The second was Sierri's Italian husband, apd the third her lover, who she said beat her. Evidence showed that Sierri danced round the man's body, but experts scouted the notion that the woman was insane. They said she had only lost her moral sense, and seemed to delight in taking life In no case was there uny financial gain from the murders. The two others poisoned were a couple from whom Sierri rented a room. The prosecution stated that Sierri attempted to poison five others, all her patients, and they had not yet recovered.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 9
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195DEATH SENTENCE. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 9
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