The Poison Fiend.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 January 1914, Page 5

The Poison Fiend.

THE TRIAL OF CARL KOPF.

BODIES EXHUMED, (By ELEoraio Telegraph—Copyrightj [United Press Association.] Berlin, January 13. The Frankfort-on-Maine Court was crowded.

The bodies of the two wives and two children, also of deceased's mother, have been exhumed, and arsenic was found in each case.

Evidence showed that Kopf was an evil-liver, and always needing money. He attempted to poison his mother in 'order to inherit £ISOO. His second wife developed an inexplicable illness. She divorced her husband, and, later, idied from tuberculosis. The third wife, who was present in court, was ill for 'a few months after her marriage. The suspecting poison, ordered her jremoval to the hospital, and Kopf was arrested.

—-<j OBTAININC THE CULTURES.

ACCUSED'S EVIDENCE.

(Received 8.30 a.m.) Berlin, January 13

Kopf obtained the cultures of cholera, typhus, anthrax, and glanders from the official Bacteriological Institute in Vienna merely by writing to the bacteriological laboratory. On the head of the note paper he stipulated that he must have the most virulent varieties.

Kopf gave evidence that he kept Saint Bernard dogs for breeding, and required the poisons to experiment with medicines upon the dogs. He also tried them upon himself.

His first wife took arsenic to make herself beautiful.

He explained that the arsenic found in one dead child was injected, after death.

The arsenic in his father's hody was the result of drinking certain mineral water. THE DISCOVERY OF THE BACTERIA PURCHASES, (Received 1.5 p.m.) Berlin, January 13. Witnesses for the police gave evidence that their notice was first attracted to Kopf's purchases of bacteria by unexplicable infection with typhoid of several charwomen working in the house which was traced to Kopf's laboratory.