A FEMALE POISONER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1594, 14 June 1887, Page 4

A FEMALE POISONER.

A species; of, rustic Lucrezia Borgia, named Bluchpt, who, lived at Brienon, a small town iti'fhe department of Ybnne, has (fhe Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says) Just been condemned to hard labor for life on a charge of having poisoned her husband and a,lodger in her house. The woman’having exhibited a weakness for the company of a birber, was remonstrated with, by her husband, Tbe lodger, an elderly man named Forgest, also ventured to point out to her the her ways, ibecame a mark for her revenge. Blocljet resolved to put the two men out of the way, and began with her husband by putting drops ( of arsenic.ln.hia soup. She treated Porgeat in the same' fashion, and, the lapse of a few days, the old man sickened , n and v dyed. . ,The ( husband succumbed six days afterwards, and, as happens , very .often „in : the French royal districts, even, in: ,the present epoch -of civilisation, the bodies were .buried with-, ont inquests; being held, Che unsp^nily haste, howevey, which the murdeySss displayed in endeavoring to induce the barber to marry hpr immediately after Ijer husband's death aroused the suspicions ,o{ her rural. neighbors, who log|> no ‘ time ;in communicating .with the police. Blucher was then arrested j the bodies of her victims were disinterred,- apd the murder was out. She h'id used ; oDpugh arsenical the accomplishment of her purpose to poison half a dozen men, Daring the trial,sjia made the meat shameful alleg*tl 1 ns against her victims, and denied her iflillf >0 ‘foe modt jijarefapftd manner. The iurv pircumsfanoes, .bowed their I,fe f ™° 3t Pf .* be ’? colleagues, both rn the provinces, to make things easy for critmuui 8 ; VP 0 are growing bolder every day.