NEWS BY MAIL. POISONED CAKE.
BERLIN, Jan. 15. A love affair between a Hanover fifth form boy of 18 and a woman 20 years older has ended in the death of three persons. The lad lived in the house of a judge in the Carolinenstrasse. Recently the judge took m a I*'rau Anna /erwig, repatriated from Brazil with her two children. ' On Friday the room where Frau Zerwig lived was forced open. There the schoolboy lav dead with a revolvei in bis band ; the children also were dead; and the mother lay unconscious. By her side was found a cake poisoned with potassium cyanide and partly consumed. It is presumed by the police that the woman, realising the hopelessness of her passion for so young a man, worked on .him to poison himself, herselt, and the two children.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1921, Page 3
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138NEWS BY MAIL. POISONED CAKE. Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1921, Page 3
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