The Richmond Sensation.
ANTECEDENTS OF THE ACCUSED. STABTLING EVIDENCE. J.PEB FBB3S ASSOCIATION.] Melbourne, June 15. The police are vigorously investigating the antecedents of Mrs Niedle, who is in custody on a charge of poisoning the two brothers Junker at Richmond. The bodies of her husband and three children will probably be exhumed. The police arc in possession of information showing that her children in their illness displayed similar symptoms to those shown by the Junkers. One child died in 1885, another in 1890, and the third in 1891. The husband died iv 1889. All four were insured for £'100 apiece, which Mrs Niedle drew. Among the letters which have beeu discovered is one from the accused to a surviving brother, of whom sho was enamoured. It complains of her treatment at the handy of Mrs Junker, sen., when the latter came to take back the dead body of her sou Louis to Adelaide, and contains this sentence : — " Remember this, the day you cast me off for your mother you will be motherless, for I shall kill Uer."
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 341, 16 June 1894, Page 2
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177The Richmond Sensation. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 341, 16 June 1894, Page 2
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