ALWAYS NEEDING MONEY.
BERLIN, Tuesday. Tho Court at Frankfort-on-Maine was crowded for the trial of Hopf.
The bodies of his two wives, two children, and his mother, were exhumed, and arsenic was found in each case. The evidence showed that Hopf was an evil liver, always needing money. Ho attempted to poison his mother, in order to inherit £1500. His second wife developed an inexplicable illness, and divorced her husband. Later she died of tuberculosis. The third wife, who was present in Court, becamo ill a few months after tho marriage. The doctor, suspecting poison, ordered her removal to the hospital, and Hopf was arrested. (A quantity of cyanide of potassium and arsenic and cultures of cholera and typhus bacilli were discovered in Hopf's house. All the wives were heavily insured, the third for £4000).
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5
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