HOPF'S EVIDENCE
(Received Wednesday, at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Tuesday.
Hopf obtained cultures of cholera, typhus and anthrax glanders from an official at the Bacteriological Institute, merely by writing with "bacteriological laboratory ,, at the head •of his note-paper. He stipulated that ho must have the most virulent varieties.
Hopf gave evidence that he kept St. Bernard dogs for breeding, and required the poisons for experiment medicinee for the dogs. He also tried them upon himself. His first wife, he said, took arsenic to make herself beautiful. Ho explained that the arsenic in one dead child was injected after death. The arsenic in his father's body was the result of drinking certain mineral water.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5
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