WHOLESALE POISONING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1571, 30 May 1887, Page 2

WHOLESALE POISONING

A Bpoolea of ruatio Luorezla Borgia, named Bluohet, who lived at Brlenon, » amalhtown m the department of Yonne. mV he Patl " of the Daily "Telegraph " aayo) jast been condemned tc> hard labor for life on a charge of having poisoned her husband and a lodger In her house. Ihe woman having exhibited a weakoeaa for the oorapany of a barber, was remonstrated with by her "tuaband, TKB lodger, an elderly man named Forgeit, also ventured, to point out. to, he* the wiokedneas of her ways, and: thenoefof ward- became *• a mark for het. revenge,;i Bluohet reßolved to put tbe two men out of -the way, and began With her husband by putting doaea of arsenic In his soup,' She treated Forgcat m. the aame fMhioni; and, after a lapae of a few days, the old man alokened and died. The husband aucoumbod six days aftetwafdji, and, at happens very often In Frenoh rural dUtrlcts, even In the present epoch of olvili- - eatlon, the bodies wore burled .without ioqaeati belngheld. The attseemins Junto, however, which the murdereia diipliiyedin endeavoring to lnduoo the barber to oakery hor Immediately rafter her ha«band> death arouaed the auiplolona of her tnnY nelghbora, who lost no time m oommunloatlug with the police. Bluohet was then arreated j the bodies of her yiotlow wert dirintetted, ftndthemutdet **touU. She had used enpagh arsenic m the aooompllsh? ment of her pucpooe to poinon half » doseA men. Daring the trial she made tho moat ahtmeful allegatlonf against her victims, and denied hor guilt In the moib barefaced manner. The jury, In finding extenuating circumstances, .showed theft; readiness, like most of their oolleagnei, both In Paris and In the proviocei, tq make things easy for, orimlnals, who ar# growlpg bolder every day. -' ;