THE FRANKFORT MURDER.
EXECUTION OF HOPF. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright BERLIN, March 23. Karl Hopf, the Frankfort music hall artist who poisoned his wife and attempted to poison two subsequent wives, his father and two children, has been executed. He dosed his victims with disease germs. At the trial, experts testified to the presence of arsenio in the exhumed bodies. A curious feature of the trial was that Hopf some years ago obtained judgments against people for slander, they hinting that he was guilty of the murders of which he has now been convicted.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16508, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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93THE FRANKFORT MURDER. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16508, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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