RE-TRIAL OF DEAD WOMAN.
CURIOUS FRENCH REQUEST. Senator Louis Martin has requested the competent authorities in Paris to re-try the ease of Mine. Lafarge, who ■ was sentenced to life in .1840 for poisoning her busband and died in prison twelve years later. Senator Martin thinks the time has come to re-try Mine. Lafarge’s vase, because a court sentenced her before it was known that the human body contained arsenic. Mine Larfarge was twenty when .-tic was charged, and her hair turned white in one night. The famous chemist Rnspail gave evidence in tier favour, mid said that traces oi arsenic mighl lie found anywhere even iii t be judge'- chair. Three successive analysi-es failed In del eel any 1 race of arsenic in Iser husband's body, but the chemist Orfila, then an authority, found a slight trace and mi the strength nf his report Mine. Lafarge was condemned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2709, 18 March 1924, Page 1
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148RE-TRIAL OF DEAD WOMAN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2709, 18 March 1924, Page 1
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