POISONED WITH TYPHOID GERMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 31 October 1921, Page 5

POISONED WITH TYPHOID GERMS

TO SKCTRK INSURANCE MONEY STRANGE TRIAL AT EAR 18 (By Electric ToJegraph— f.’opyrigld •) lAnstralian & N.Z. Cable Aafocmtioo PAPJS. Oct. 28. The “Gentleman Girard” case, one of the strangest in the history of sriontifir crime, lam opened. Henn Girard, an insurance agent, u Kli. v\o men and two women aeeomphees, were charged with poison ins h'’'" persons with tvphoid semis alter liea\il} nisnrins tlioir lives. '.I wo oi ilie \.ieums died and Girard has since dual m prison. One of his areompheos, Girard s mistress, Doneteax Girard, first ol all induced a friend named 1 Godel to insure his life for 028,000. Gndel "wim soon afflicted with a mysterious illness hub rocovered. He oexi. insuied Dolmas for £lfi(K). Ife liroughe tJplioid germs and Invited Dolmas to dinner at Doneteax house, t'heio Dolmas was typhoid-strieken alter drinking an aperient, hut recovered One fatal ease was asmbed In mushroom poisoning. The maid says she was forbidden (o toneli the vieiims plates after dinner, Girard and Donet'eax washing the plates with an Oddities, The oilier victim was a girl first wife. The insnraneo ; people were suspicious of this ease and investigation led to ihe revelation ot Ihe previous mystery