The Poisoning Cases.
Melbourne, June 15. The police are vigorously investigating the antecedents of Mrs Needle, who is iv custody on the charge of poisoning the two brothers Junker. The bodies of her husband and three children will probably be exhumed. The police are m possession of information showing that her children displayed similar symptoms to Junker's. One child died m 1885, and tbe ether m 1890, and the third m 1891. The husband died m 1889. All four were insured for £100 apiece, which Mrs Needle drew. Among the letters discovered is One from | the accused to his surviving brother, of whom she was enamoured. It complains of her treatment at the hands of Mrs Junker, senior, when the latter came to take back the dead body of her son Louis, to Adelaide, and contains this sentence, " Remember, the day you cast me off for your mother, you will be motherless, for I shall kill her."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7004, 16 June 1894, Page 2
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157The Poisoning Cases. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7004, 16 June 1894, Page 2
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