HUNGARIAN POISON CASE.
WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. (united press association— by electric TELEGRAPH COPYBIOHT.) BUDAPEST, December 13. At the poisoning trial, Juliana I4pka was sentenced to death, and three other women to life imprisonment. The detection of the murders had been long postponed because the local Coroner, who was related to a mid-wife named Olah, returned verdicts of death from natural causes. Olah and another widwife began by supplying poison to kill unwanted babies, and then went on to supply larger doses for adults. The defence demanded an enquiry into the difficulties of earning the meagrest livelihood in the overcrowded district of small holdings surrounded by vast and poorly-cultivated estates, alleging that the isolation and hopeless poverty were responsible for the menfolk's only recreation being heavy drinking. MORE ACCUSED TO BE TRIED. (Received December 16th, 9.50 p.m.) BUDAPEST, December 15. The trial of the next batch of women accused begins on Monday. If the death sentence on Lipka is carried out, she will He the first woman in. living memory to be hanged in Hungary.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19804, 17 December 1929, Page 13
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