THE AIX TRIAL
FURTHER EVIDENCE
ACCESS TO POISON AND ACID
United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received October 30, 2.40 p.m.) PARIS, October 29. At the Aix en Provence trial further startling cvidenco was given. A chemist employed at a Marseilles pharmacy declared that in 1925 a man named Garrette, who had beeri a lover of Philomene Schmidt, one of tho accused, had access to poison of which sufficient to kill fifty people was once found missing. The prosecution produced documents allegedly signed by Deltreuil, Catherine Schmidt's former husband, proving that Deltreuil, as a chemical inventor, was able to obtain various acids.
Catherine's counsel declared that tho documents were forgeries.
The prosecution also read letters from the mother of the girl Magali Herbin, revealing, that threo months after this consumptive girl's death Catheriiio wrote, ostensibly on behalf of Mile. Herbin, stating.: "Our dear little friend is unable to write owing to :in injured finger."
Catherine declared that the accused Sarrct dictated tho letters.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 10
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163THE AIX TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 10
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