WOMAN POISONER
SHE KEPT HER SECRET Darkest of nil mysteries in the annals of poisoning was a delay Til-art >on potion known as "Aqua Toiiaua. compounded by Toll'ana. of Palermo. ami later of Naples. It eonlil be made, to operate at any given time, tip to a year, alter being administered, states a London, journal. A professional poisoner who?| services were always available provided her fee was forthcoming. Tolfana is held responsible for no fewer than 600 victims, inel'iclitiiz two I'iipes. To a great extent i he wave of poisoning which swept Kurope in the seventeenth ronton was duo to ibis woman, but. although in the on,l subjected to torture ami strangulation, she took the secret of her "time poi«tm ' with her to tile straw.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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125WOMAN POISONER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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