DEATH SENTENCE FOR BELGIAN WOMAN
MIDDLE-AGED HOUSEWIFE GUILTY OF MURDER
LIEGE, July 8. Marie Becker was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but she will undergo penal servitude for life, because the death sentence is not inforced on women in Belgium.
The trial began at Liege on June 7 of Mme Becker, a middle-aged Belgian housewife, who was charged with 11 murders and five attempted murders. The prosecution alleged that the money she extracted from her victims went to pander to the expensive tastes of herself and her lover. All her victims had lent her money or made wills in her favour after she had drugged them.
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Southland Times, Issue 23557, 11 July 1938, Page 7
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