MANY CRIMES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 July 1923, Page 7

MANY CRIMES.

MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT Received July 12, 9.80 a.m.. BRUSSELS, July 11. De Mazieires has been sentenced to death. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Henri de Mazieres was tried at the Ghent Assizes tor murdering his sister-in-law Valeric by means of strychnine tablets, and for forging a will purporting, to be.made by her in favour of himself. Valeric died in May, 1922, after many attacks of sickness, which caused so much gossip that the police intervened while the coffin was being taken to the cemetery. A post-mortem revealed that large quantities of strychnine had "been taken just before death. The police then made an examination of de Maaieres' careec, and found that he had poisoned a vicomte and also' nmnaged to marry three women. He had served three years for forging the will of a. well-to-do Senator, who was a relative of his mother. When his first wife, a rich Jewess, learned of the orime she divorced her husband, but she has been in an asylum ever since. De Mazieres married again, and his second wifs was killed in Paris by a German bomb. Finally, he married Angele, sister of the mxirdered woman, whom, he met at a matrimonial agency. While arranging this alliance de Mazieres was in amatory correspondence with fifty other women.]