Female Poisoner.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7719, 23 January 1905, Page 3

Female Poisoner.

TWENTY YEARS HARD I.AHOUU 1 FOB THHBIS Mi;ii:>El{S. j PARIS, Oct. i! 0. i After a trial extending ever three : days, Mine. Galtie, 1 lie attracthe I young woman of Uvmy-live. charged | with poisoning three persons, has ' just been condemned to twenty years' i nlard labour at the- Assizes held at | Audi, in the south of France. i The woman is the widow of a j magistrate, and tho peculiarly atro. oious and cold-blooded nature of her i crimes has aroused am extraordinary ' amount on interest in the case. , Her victims were her husband, her grandmother, and her brother, whom iilio laundered by administering lo them large dot-TO of arsenic, after first insuring their lives in her own favour. Her swle motive seems to ' have been an overmastering desire to ' obtain sullicieiit money to indulge in 1 tlw luxuries of dress and personal i adornment, which her husband's limi- ] ted means would not permit her to i attain'. j M. Galtic, whose life she insured for £BOO, was the lirst victim. On" i premium only was paid. Shortly afterwards ho 'became suddenly ill, and . though a- singularly robust man, was dead at the end of throe dajs. Tho -next victim was Mine, Gallic's ■grandmother, who died rafter a short illness in wivioh, she too, was attended 'by tho accused. Gaston Jhipont, the woman's brother, a phanmaceutocal student, was thu th.ixl victim, lirother and sister had always been extremelv attached to one another, and the voting man appears not to have had the slightest suspicion of his sister's sinister inttntions when she insured his' life for £2,000. lie was surprised, and declared he was too young to ~e in . sured, but finally acquiesced i n the scheme. One premium was paid bv his sister, and then he, too, had to pay }jis life for his complaisance. The facts of the case admitted of no denial. Mine. GaUie observed an admitted to tho most supreme indifference, answered all the questions put to hjr in a most nonchalant manner, and while the jury was absent calmly smoked tt ciwal-eUe lueMtted to her by one of the gendarmes in charge of her.