A GERMAN BLUEBEARD.
CONFESSES HIS GUJLT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, May 19. Karl Hopf, formerly the world's foils champion, who was arrested at Frankfort last month on charges of poisoning two wives, and attempting the life of a third, has confessed that iie administered cholera germs to his third wife. In tho meantime Hopf's housekeeper has died from 'typhus. [A quantity of cyanide of potassium and arsenic, "and cultures of typhus and cholera bacilli were discovered in Hopf's house after his arrest. All the wives were heavily insured, the third for ■£1000.]
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1755, 21 May 1913, Page 7
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92A GERMAN BLUEBEARD. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1755, 21 May 1913, Page 7
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