POISON MYSTERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 4

POISON MYSTERY

ARRESTS OF COUPLE FATE OF VISITORS FROM U.S.A. BRAG UK, Fell. 22. Tin' ]u■:is:ilit mass - poisoning psychology ” appears to have spread across the Hungarian frontier into Slovak i«i. The wife of the village carpenter of the hamlet of Sucnn, named Lansfeld. was to-day arrested on a charge ot poisoning a married couple named I ’a n/.el. They had just returned from America, and were staying at her house with the intention of >l>uying a farm with several thousand dollars, which they carried with them in notes. On Saturday night Mrs. Lansfeld summoned a doctor to the cottage to see the I’anzels, who, she declared, must have committed suicide. Despite her cunning arrangement of the ■.bodies tin l doctor suspected that she had administered poison in their sottp. Search revealed a large quatitity of poison in the house, and the doilar notes hidden beneath her malI ress. Since .she was arrested, with her husband as alleged accomplice, evidence has come to light which, according to the view of the authorities, points to the belief that this is not their tirst crime of a similar nature. During the war a Russian prisoner was living with the woman. lie Was known to have accnmulaled capital by hard work, bill suddenly disappeared. Five years ago a woman lodging with Mrs. I.a list eld, and believed to possess 10,000 gold kronen (about £420) suddenly died. The fortune was never found. The body is now to lie exhumed and examined for poison. Search is also to Jn 1 made for the Russian’s body.