A CHILD MURDERESS
Emilic Bienert, aged thirteen years, has been sentenced at' .Hamburg to eighteen months' imprisonment for wilful murder. The child, who had been abandoned by her parents and was of an unruly aisposition, had been placed' by the authorities in a reformatory school at Interbog. On three occasions she had effected her escape from the institution, and each time,' on being conveyed back, she was subjected to severe dhastisement. Emilia then, according to an' ' Express' telegram, resolved to avenge herself upon Sister Clara, the manageress'of the school. Having gathered some poisonous wild cherries, she steeped them in brandy, which' ' somehow she had procured, and placed ' a glassful of the mixture on Sister Clare's > dressing-table, knawng that she was in the .habit of drinking therry brandy before retiring for the njght. Meanwhile the girl had told her ' schoolmates that Sister Clara was ■ about'i to, die, and that she would be replaced7\ by another matron, who would treat all the children very generously. Sister Clara, however, noticing that the cherry brandy was of a very dark color, threw it away untouched. tnen procured some sulphuric acid; which she. had stolen from [ a factory, and ponied flj into Sujtw I Clara's The.j matron, after.
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Evening Star, Issue 12623, 30 September 1905, Page 8
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204A CHILD MURDERESS Evening Star, Issue 12623, 30 September 1905, Page 8
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