KOPF POISONING TRIAL.
STARTLING EVIDENCE. (3y Cable—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, January 13. Kopf obtained cultures of cholera, typhus, anthrax and glanders from the official bacteriological institute in Vienna merely by writing "Bacteriological Laboratory" at the head of his noiepaper. He stipulated that he must have the most virulent varieties. Kopf gave evidence that lie kept St. Bernard dogs for breeding, and required the ppisons for experiments in medicines for the dogs. He also tried tlieni upon himself. His first wife took arsenic to make herself beautiful. He explained the presence of arsenic in the body cf one dead child iby saying that it was injected after death. The arsenic in his father's body was the result of drinking a certain mineral water. AVitneses for the police gave evidence that notice was first attracted to Kopf's purchases' of bacteria by the inexplicable infection with typhoid of several charwomen working in a house, which was traced to Kopf's laboratory.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 5
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156KOPF POISONING TRIAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 5
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