ALLEGED POISONING.
ANOTHER HUNGARIAN CASE. PEASANT WOMAN ARRESTED. LONDON. Feb. 1. The Daily Telegraph's Buda Pest correspondent says the police at Szolnok are investigating fresh- allegations which, it is believed are likely to reveal further wholesale poisoning cases similar to those reported last month.
Tho.Public Prosocutor has ordered the arrest of a peasant, Julienne Nadas, on a charge of poisoning her stepfather, Joseph Maizik, who Was a local magistrate. The woman "ordered her stepfather's coffin six months beforo his death.
A post-mortenj of Maizik's body revealed a large quantity of arsenic. An alarming discovery also was made in another Hungarian town, Bekesosaba. This was that 191b. of arsenic had disappeared from a hospital there, 41b. of which were found in a sugar jar in a local shop. The rest had disappeared, and has nofc been traced. It is -a mystery how the shopkoeper possossed so enormous a quantity of poison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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