POISON PLOTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 9

POISON PLOTS

.• n i it , SOME REMARKABLE TALES OF?' mflf : f ?\ \ B ft \\ *I 9 fi.9 8 ' -*• Itfej W/ ho\£ i* used as a medium by poisoners. T^ one of the most startling poison caseX r -ok recent, year*, a German nurse-ginfj / AJjnnji- J3 T &guer vy name, was poisoned by muriatic acid administered in a cu*6 iei Elizabeyi y.pn Huskier, Uie..distinguishet oKfe itoVaTkvxmihaa . and niece of the Royal Cham'l berlain of the Bavarian Court." Evidence' cess of a Bavarian Court, and that Minna . hadv H t^L ed remonstrate. Here was f mo W# or CI F1 ; ' but there Wils #> ( Fproqf ysfb thgfejksed had ever ha^d such a poison as muriatic acid in her night. ' r . r , r ~ r , r ►•<■ • But the evidSfe 1 eventually Fraulien von ilaussler' w-ijLs discharged. ' .-, ■ •*sNtofybMafa&,t-sNfamif PMladelplns physician, Dr. William H. Wilson, met his death in a mysterious fashion. One day he received iby jpost a bottle of beer, with a letter, from a brewery, asking him to sample their new brew. He was sitting at dinner when the ■jpawkjjt arrivpk dires.f "LetuTjpPejffhatfif iS- life," he »»'d. |e a glassful.' Then, about to fill a glass, he 'tiaMefl|the bottle out of her hands. "Its poisoned!" he cried and. mshitio-

' rr 1 ? » ™rr i kimsu, anu,rusmng wit Wf *h#rooih towards his ftoaFan&Me&Kbefore any antidote i >msM?M*%Mi and,: though a woman of wealth and wenKffitHnT& suspected of the! never brought home to'' her. | Doctors <°ar3 SoP in}re\uMitly the ob-l .'lQiie dayl ■in FBbFfia*yf, twotyear* togdjifae wife off Dr. Vitolo, in thel <smWfy®fc§&}<?* < l( iWtfy.,' a •parcel' containing a }| .papk^L (l of sweets | (fiif that ittTHßrnory 0 f old times, ae sent the pFesfeA^ l which 'wSsfHo be dividM'4Xkbng >thel>f*flily. The sWst(ji}Bere diMrd«a\3Jetween ,the girl of nine and a boy of thjt-eje. Almost immediately, both feii sa VMr But-ty',poor little boy died in' his mother's arms. saw the letter, said he knew Mattace, but that he was not in Italy, whereas the box had been posted in Naples. The police set to wqrk and though they arrestcriminal. The last time upon which the police unearthed any extensive poisoning con-1 ( 6piracy in England was in the late 'nme-j .iUes. A :gang of conscienceless scounj'flrljls are known to have committed atj TleSsraL.dozen murders upon indiviauals; r whose insured for sums aggre-j | The head of thei / himself science.