MODERN BLUEBEARD IN THE DOCK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 7

MODERN BLUEBEARD IN THE DOCK.

u;WNoroBps'HOPF / asps|s,a : SIIsSiASE:BACILLr'IJSED;FORpI ;BpJci«BTa.pli^PrL'Ss;A£6(!ciatiqn—Copyrittht' si? *fSiISS'SS , Berlin, , ; JamiarySls!;*K |S.Tlio;jtna]/of Karl Hop!', , formerly tho champion,\ who; iwasarrcst.id .in' April ■last'orr'a poisoning charge;; Ho is : charged-.with;, poisoning <;by ■ arsenic* iis." father,'.;-first' wife,'and two ■ children; : nnd attempting .toV murder aiid'■■second i'and" tliird . wives. '■•'■■ \' Ay j ';**'*¥:/': '>: - -f'V%sp.V ' .Ho .withdrew ■■■ a,-', confession'?-ho;-.' had; made,.,and explained that he'was/uiijastate ''of, mental 'collapse wheu'r lief administered tho cholera bacilli^"to" , !! his third., ?p" £ :'fMt' : i;||;AN'EVIL.LIVIXG ; ;M![)NSTER;#f; January 14, o.lo\a.m.)iJp£ ■■■»■:?i'-" T ■■%■.),:. '"■ Berlin,'January-135.: v Tho Court at Frnnkfovt-on-Mainc, was crowded for-.the trial of ■--'■ The .bodies of his two wives," two-chil-: dren', .and his mother,■-were. exhumed, , and arsenic was found in cadi ease.:,;":. The evidence showed.,.that Hopf was an evil liver, always needing money.. He 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. Tho' third, wife, 'who was present, in Court, became ill a few months after tho marriage.; The doctor, suspecting poison, ordered her removal .to the hospital, aiid Hopf was arrested. i-A quantity of cyanide of potasemm ami ''Aiwttic and cultures of cholera and typhus bacilli wero discovered in Ilopf's house. All the wives were heavily insured, tho third for J!M00. • ' ' ;..;.. :,';,.