MANY MURDERS
All old woman who has been imprisoned in Liege. Belgium, for more than a year, will shortly appear at the Assizes. She will be charged with 12 murders. Mario Alexandrine Potitjohn Beckers, a widow, is alleged by the police to have poisoned nine women. But Mine. Beckers denies all stories of poison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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54MANY MURDERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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