A MELBOURNE SENSATION.
Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright. Melbouknjs, June 13.
A sensational poisoning case is alleged to have occuired at Richmond. A man named Lewis Junker died on June 6, and his brother afterwards visited the housekeeper and was taken ill. The symptoms denoted arsenical poisoning, and the body of Lewis, being exhumed, showed similar traces. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the housekeeper, who is named Mrs Neidel.
Jane 15,
The police are vi£-nrionsly investigating the antecedents of Mrs Neidle who is in
custody on a charge of poisoning the two brothers Junker.
The bodies of her husband and three children will probably be exhumed. The police are io possession of informa'ion showit g that her children diiplayed similar symptoms to the JuDkers. One child died in ISBS. another in 1890, and a third ia 1891. Tne husband died in 1889, alf four were insured for LlOOa-piece, whichMrsNeidledrew.
Among the letters discovered is one from the accused to the surviving brother, with whom she was enainouied. It cjmplains of her treatment at the hands of Mrs Junker, sen., when the latter- came to take back tho dead body of her son Louis to Adelaide, and contains this sentence : — " Remember this* day you cast me off for your mother. You will be motherless, for I shall kill her."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 13
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222A MELBOURNE SENSATION. Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 13
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