FIENDISH NURSE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 5

FIENDISH NURSE.

SIX PIERSONS POISONED.

DELIGHTED IN TAKING LIFE.

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PARIS, April 27

A sensational poisoning case is reported from Nunes, where Antoinette Sierri, ia middle-aged nurse, wlas found guilty of poisoning six persons, and sentenced to death. Public 'indignation was such tliait sixty gendarmes were- necessary to control the crowd in the Palais de Justice. Sierri administered pyralion, a preparation used in viticulture to kill grubs, and which is heavily laden with arsenic, to her victims. The first was an elderly maiden lady with whom Sierri had no quarrel, the second was Sierra's Italian] husband, and the third was! her lover, whom she said had beaten her. The evidence showed that Sierri danced - around the man’s dead body, but experts, scouted' the notion that the woman was insane. They said she had only lost her moral sense, and seemed to delight in taking life. Tn no case was there any financial gain from the murders. The two others poisoned were a couple .from, whom Sierri rented a room, and the prosecution alleged that Sierri attempted to poison five others, .all of them her patients, and they had not yet recovered.