ARSENICIDE
HUNGARY'S MASS POISONING
FURTHER REVELATIONS
(Received 3rd February, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, 2nd February. The "Daily Telegraph 's"< Budapest correspondent says that tho police at Szolnok are investigating fresh allegations which are believed to be likely to reveal further mass poisonings similar to those- Iready announced. The Public Prosecutor has ordered the arrest of a peasant Julienne Nadas on a charge of poisoning, her stop-father, ■Toseph Maizik, who was a local MagisIT>- 'o. Nadas ordered her step-father J3 coffin six months before' death. A post mortem revealed a large quantity of arsenic differing from that employed by the murderesses of tho Theiss Valley already charged. An alarming discovery was also made' in another Hungarian town, Bekesosaba, that nineteen pounds of arsenic disappeared from the Budapest Hospital, of which four pounds were found in a sugar jar at a local shop. The rest has disappeared. It is an untraced mystery ho. the shopkeeper possessed such an enormous quantity of .poison. '■' ,'
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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159ARSENICIDE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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