WIVES ALLEGED POISONERS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1929, Page 18

WIVES ALLEGED POISONERS

SENSATIONAL HUNGARIAN TRIALS By Telegraali—Press Assn.—Copyright. Budapest, Dec. 16. The trial of the next batch of women accused of murderiiiw. their husbands begins oir Monday. If the death sen-, tence of Juliana Lipka is carried, out she will be the first woman in living memory to be hanged in Hungary. Juliana Lipka was sentenced to death and three other women to imprisonment for life in the trial, iii which a large number of women are accused of murdering their husbands" or other relatives in order to secure, the possession of land. It was revealed that the midwife, Mqrie Fazekae, from whom the women alleged that they had obtained their supplies of poison, had collected poison from fly-papers arid", in the course of 20 years, had compassed more, than 100 murders. She even tried to poison the police when they came to arrest her. Fifty bodies have been exliumed, in 44 of which there was enough poison to kill 1000 men. The ages of the 34 women who face the judge vary from 20 years to 70. One woman, aged 66, was accused of poison-

ing seven persons, including her mother, uncle and husband.