NOTORIOUS POISONER ON TRIAL.
Areoclatioiih;C6Byriiit -' Bsrlin,"-January .].3.sV; ;i- Further; evidence at the .trial of;.Karl ■ 1 lopf,,', formerly, -the -world's - f oil'.'ehamwas.arrested in April last : on lather, first'' ;.two children; .and: attempting 'toiimiirdor his'mother, and'his second 'nmUthird' wife,, showed that'^HomVob-; tained' cultures-of" cholera';' 5 tvphus,- and', 'anthrax glanders from, an official in. the J3act«riologieal'-Institute- at,'.., Vienna, merely..: v . by, : Laboratory!:' /on the head of■ the-noto-■paper.-'/lie,stipulated, that'ho muss. have the most virulent varieties.., j-'-- «'":■. Hopf gave evidence that, ho kept Saint'. ■Bernard dogs -for. breeding, and--.re-fiuiredithe poisons for experiments.-on ..dogs.;,- lie. also-tried them' upon.- him- ■ self: His iirst wife took the arsenic to ■make herself, beautiful..' I ;,*'"-He explained'that; tho arsenic found in' the ..body of - ono' L dead child was, injected' after death. Tho arsenic in his father's body.; was. the- result, of drinking... a ■ car-' . tain,:minora! water,:; .-' v,. 5 .:,'. ':■?«■■,■.?:■.;.■■). *?.-A';police\ witness' gave" evidence that die -was-lirst attracted.-.:■ to : - Hopf's pur--'chases : of; bacteria' by tho .inexplicable infection with typhoid of several char* women..working in the house. -Tho in-fection;-:'was .. traced'.'to v Hopf's;:;labora-.?rS-,:.'-'(Rec.':''/January' 14,"' 10.20 ■ p.'tn'.ji'fV: : ; '.S;:;'v:'' ' Berlin, January 11V-- %.•', Several witnesses who were beards iri ■ .'camera testified to . Hopf's ' addiction io cruelties. Numerous strange impte-.: .ments'were found in his rooms.' -■'■■■> A police officer, when arresting-himi" ; found a bottlo of virulent poison., on .Hopf's person.- The prisoner .declared . that if ho'had not been arrested sud-' donly;;'he.;..would, havo committed ; .STli» ; : ;'cide.jp:;; s ;*- ■■,'>■'". ''•...• ] : ;.:%f\^(i
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1958, 15 January 1914, Page 5
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229NOTORIOUS POISONER ON TRIAL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1958, 15 January 1914, Page 5
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