WHOLESALE POISONER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 167, 14 January 1914, Page 5

WHOLESALE POISONER.

STANDS HIS TRIAL By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Berlin, January 12. The trial of Karl Kopf, formerly the world's foil champion, lias commenced. He is charged with poisoning, by moans of arsenic, lus fattier, first wife and two children, and attempting to mur(ler his mother and second and third wives. lie withdrew his confession and exclaimed that he mis suffering a niental collapse when he administered chol,.cra bacilli to Qvis third wife. i [All the wives of accused were heavily insured.] BODIES EXHUMED. * Kccjivcd 14, 12.20 a.m. Berlin, January 13. Tlie Frankfort-oli-Maine Court was crowded. Tile bodies of the two wives and two children, also of deceased's mother, hav# been exhumed, and arsenic was found in each ease. Evidence showed that Kopf was an evil-liver, and always needing money, lie attemnted to poison his mother in order to inherit £ISOO. His second wife developed an inexplicable illness. She divorced her husband, and, later, died from tuberculosis. The third wife, who was present in court, was ill for a few months after her marriage. The doctor, suspecting poison, ordered lier rcmovil to the hospital, and Kopf was arrested.