SIX CHARGES OF MURDER
Alleged Poisoning By Arsenic PARIS. March 18. Marie Besnard, the “Black Widow,” who is charged with six arsenic murders, was today alleged to have asked a cell-mate to arrange for some Marseilles gangsters to kill her accusers. Three women denied that they had been planted in Besnard’s cell by the police as stool pigeons. They gave evidence of letters which she asked them to smuggle out of her cell, but which they turned over to the police. Besnard, a 57-year-old widow, is being tried in Bordeaux on charges of having murdered her husband, her parents and three other relatives between 1938 and 1949. The prosecution alleges that she killed her victims with arsenic for the money they had left to her.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27303, 20 March 1954, Page 7
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125SIX CHARGES OF MURDER Press, Volume XC, Issue 27303, 20 March 1954, Page 7
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