WHOLESALE POISONING.

Mataura Ensign, 14 January 1914, Page 5

WHOLESALE POISONING.

THE FRANKFORT SENSATION. B1 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PRE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 14, 8.30 a.m. BERLIN, Jan. 13. Karl Hopf (who is charged with wholesale poisoning) obtained cultures of cholera typhus, anthrax and glanders from the official bacteriological laboratory. In has request for the cultures he stipulated that he must have the most virulent varieties. Hopf, in his evidence, said he kept St. Bernard dogs for breeding, and that he required the poisons as experimental medicines upon dogs. He said he also tried them upon himself. His first wife, he took arsenic to make herself beautiful and he explained that the arsenic found on one dead child was injected after death. The arsenical traces in his father's body were the result of drinking certain mineral water. SUSPICIONS OF THE POLICE. Received January 14, 1.5 p.m. ... BERLIN, Jan. 13. Wfthessesffor tfe jiClicP gftSS evid'eiica that notice was first attracted to Karl Hopf's purchases of bacteria by the inexplicable infection with typhoid of several charwomen who had been working in his house and the infection was eventually traced to Hopf's laboratory.