ARSENIC IN COFFEE.
m »» •. SENTENCE ON A WOMAN, Octavie Lecompte, a woman aged 35, was found .guilty on May 4 By a jury at Douai Ass-izes of poisoning her father and brother, who were farmers at Clary, near Douai, by putting arsenic in their coffee. She confessed her guilt when confronted with a chemist'from whose shop she bought arsenic rat poison. The death sentence passed on her ordains that she shall be taken to the public place of execution in a white nightgown, with her feet bare and her Head covered by a hood, and guillotined. In all probability she will have the sentence commuted to one of imprisonment for life or for a long term.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 1, 10 July 1914, Page 7
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116ARSENIC IN COFFEE. Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 1, 10 July 1914, Page 7
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