GUILTY OF MURDER
LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR BELGIAN WOMAN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LIEGE. July 8. Madame Marie Becker has been found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death, but she will undergo life long penal servitude because the death sentence is not enforced on women in Belgium. Madame Becker, a typical looking middle-aged Belgian housewife, 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 the victims had lent her money, or made wills in her favour after she had drugged them.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21085, 11 July 1938, Page 7
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108GUILTY OF MURDER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21085, 11 July 1938, Page 7
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