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Southland Times, Issue 17609, 25 March 1914, Page 6

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EXECUTION Oh’ HOPE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright, BERLIN. March 113. Karl Hopf, the wife poisoner, lias been executed. Ikipf. the ex-world’s foils champion, was charged with having murdered his father, his first wife, and two children, and having attempted to murder his mother and his second and third wives. Expert witnesses testified that arsenic had been discovered in the bodies of the four victims, which had been exhumed. A curious feature of the case was that years ago Hopf obtained judgments against certain people for slander in hinting that he had neen guilty of the murders for which ho has been executed. EXPENSIVE VOTES. LONDON. March 25. The case in the Court of King’s Bench in which 'William Bird, a common informer. was awarded thirteen thousand pounds and costs against Sir Stuart Samuel. Liberal M.P. for the Whitechapel Division of ’Power Hamlets, was again before the Court to-day. Bird claimed the fines on account of Sir Stuart Samuel having voted in Parliament while a partner in a firm which had contracts for tiro supply of silver will) the India Office. Mr Justice Kowlait under a statute of the year ISOt. awarded five hundred pounds for each ot twenty-six voles t ?- corded in tin* I louse of Commons by Sir S, Samn'l since the contracts wore entered into. On Up* application of tin? defence a stay of execution was granted. Plaintiff pointed rail that an Indemnity Bin in favour of Sir S. Samuel was proposed in Parliament, and asked that defendant should be compelled to pay the money into Court. This application was refused. The whole litigation was later .settled, the terms not being disclosed.