A WITCH WOMAN
ON TRIAL FOR. MURDER. (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9. a.m.) LONDON, June 17. The'“Daily Mail” Vienna correspondent states Anna Pistova, aged 92, the so-called “ witch of Vladimirova®, near Belgrade, will be tried on murder charges whether with the widows of six rich farmers as the result of an accusation that she practised the longstanding supply of deadly love potions to unhappy Serbian wives. The police regarded her as a harmless herbalist until the mysterious death of Burgomaster Carina, of Novoseelo, last year, and Madame Carina, •v pretty woman of twenty-nine, who led a cat and dog life with her husband. The bodies of Carina and twelve other men were exhumed and autopsies disclosed vegetable poisoning. Pistova says it was the wives fault if they over-dosed their husbands. A witness declared they merely tried to re-vitalise their husband’s love and did not intend to killjhem^^^^^
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1929, Page 5
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153A WITCH WOMAN Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1929, Page 5
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