MASS MURDERS BY POISONING ARE SUSPECTED IN HUNGARY.
Nineteen Pounds Of Arsenic Stolen From Hospital; Much Untraced
CUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received February 3, 9.5 a.tn.) LONDON, February 2. The Budapest correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraphsays that the police at Szolnok are investigating fresh allegations which are believed to be likely to reveal further mass poisonings, similar to those at Szoynok. The Public Prosecutor has ordered the arrest of a peasant, Julienne Nadas, who is charged with poisoning his stepfather, Joseph Maizik, who was a local magistrate. Nadas ordered his stepfather’s coffin six months before Maizik’s death.
A post-mortem revealed a large quantity of arsenic', differing from that employed by the murderesses of Theiss Valley. An alarming discovery was also made in another Hungarian town, Bekesdsaba, that nineteen pounds of arsenic disappeared from a hospital. Four pounds of this arsenic was found in a sugar jar in a local shop. The rest disappeared and has not been traced. It is a mystery how the shopkeeper possessed such an enormous quantity of poison.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18985, 3 February 1930, Page 1
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