WIFE POISONING CASE.
USE OF l CHOLERA - GERMS. MURDERER'S CONFESSION. By telegraph.— Association.—Copyright, :; Berlin, May, 19. Karl Hopf, formerly the world's foils champion, i has. confessed that , ! he administered cholera; germs to his third wife. '~. . -■';■■:' ~' ' Since his arrest ■ his housekeeper has died of typhus fever in Paris. Karlf .Hopf was arrested," at Frankfort last month on a charge of poisoning : two wives and attempting ■ to ' poison a third. A quantity ; of cyanide "■ of potassium, ••: arsenic, and cultures of typhus, and cholera,: bacilli were discovered in accused's house. All '• Hopf's wives were ) heavily ■-insured-, the-third for £4000. , .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15307, 21 May 1913, Page 7
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