MODERN BORGIA.
PRAGUE. March 3. An extraordinary Borgian attempt to murder a nineteen-year-old girl from Brno was discovered. The gir!7 Marie S., had complained of eye trouble, sleeplessness, pains in her wrists, and especially in the three middie fingers of her right hand, the 3*cin of which showed strange chanpes. A doctor whom the girl consulted could not explain her illness. By chance, two colleagues of M*irie S. noticed that the keys of her typewriter were phosphorescent. Next day the typewriter was examined, ind it was stated that radium chloride of barium had been spread on the *ey of the number 7. Through the constant touching of this key, Marie S. had been attacked with slow radium poisoning. It was then found that Josef Kopriva, a deformed man working in the laboratory of the firm, had pursued the girl with his attentions, which had been rejected. On his arrest Kopriva confessed to the attempted _
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 9
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