Peasant Girl Orders Step-father’s Coffin
SIX MONTHS BEFORE DEATH. MORE MASS POISONINGS REVEALED IN HUNGARY. United Press Association. —By Electrie Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 2. The Daily Telegraph Budapest correspondent states: — '-‘The police at Szolnok are investigating fresh allegations which, it is believed, are likely to reveal further mass poisoning cases. “The public prosecutor has ordered the arrest of Julienne Nasdas, a peasant, who is charged with poisoning her stepfather, Joseph Maizik, who was the local magistrate. Julienne ordered her stepfather’s coffin six months before his death. A post mortem examination revealed a large quantity of arsenic in the body. “The alarming discovery was recently made in another Hungarian town, Bekesosaba, that 19 pounds of arsenic disappeared .from a t hospital, four pounds of which were later found in a sugar jar in a local shop. The rest disappeared untraced. It is a mystery how the shopkeeper came to possess such a quantity of poison:”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7134, 4 February 1930, Page 7
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