BORDER CHARGE

Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 9

BORDER CHARGE

AN ITALIAN SENSATION. TURIN WOMEN ON TRIAL. Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. ROME, April 23. _ The trial of Clothilde Cravana, a Turin woman, who is accused of poisoning her husband, son, and daughter, is causing a sensation, partly owing to tho beauty of tho accused, who is also a well-known woman in Turin. Since her arrest she has lost 3st in weight, but she defended herself during the opening days of the trial with the utmost vigor, declaring that her accusers were acting under tho impulse of a vendetta, and that her father-in-law, who was the principal witness, had made immoral advances, which she repulsed. Tho trial is expected to last a fortnight. Tho evidence shows that three victims died of poisoning by corrosive sublimate. 'When the first child died in March, 1916, the magistrate decided that there was no case tor a jury. There was an official inquiry when tho daughter died under similar circumstances, but tbo aged father-in-law was unwearying in his persistence, and ho induced the police to order post mortoms and to try the wife,—A. and N.Z. Cable.