SENTENCE OF DEATH.
— •> AUSTRIAN ARMY POISONING - CASE. \sy Tclatfrnnh—"Proas AssiKMntion-Coorrlclil-(Rec. May 30, 1.15 a.m.) Vienna, May 29. A secret court-martial has found Lieutenant Hofrichter guilty of attempting to poison officers of the Austrian General Staff, and he has been sentenced to be hanged.
[A Vienna cablegram, dated April 29, stated that Lieutenant Hofrichter (then under trial) had confessed to having attenuated to poison ten officers of tlie Austrian General Staff. The motive .of the crime was a wish to create vacancies so that he become staff officer, thus improving the position of his wife. In consequence of her previous assertion of her husband's innocence, Frau Hofrichter was also detained in custody.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 829, 30 May 1910, Page 7
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111SENTENCE OF DEATH. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 829, 30 May 1910, Page 7
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