CUPBOARD OF DEATH.
REMARKABLE HISTORY* Lucretia Borgia's' poison cupboard ha* been advertised for sale •by a Russian lxovalist in Berlin. This cupboard, m which Lucretia poisoned her lovers, is apparently a fine piece of old Italian furniture, and* was given to her by her brother With diabolical cunning, Lucretia would entice her victims to open the cupboard. Suddenly a poison needle, would spring out and'a few hours later they would be dead. , , Sitico Lucretia's deaf!) the cupboard has had a remarkable history. At the end ot the eighteenth century it was acquired by Cardinal Ferdinand of Medici and placed in the Villa Medici, near Rome. Tlio Russian who is scllinß it declares it, was then Riven bv the Cardinal to "sar Nicholas I as an' expression : of pratituda foi the protection of Reman Catholics in Russia It remained at Tsarskoye Selo, near Pctrocrad, until 1917 Rasputin was specially attracted by it. When the revolution broke out. the cupboard was taken across the Russo-Finnish frontier,.in a hay; cart.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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