WHOLESALE MURDER OF HUSBANDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1214, 26 October 1882, Page 2

WHOLESALE MURDER OF HUSBANDS.

A horrible story of wholesale murdering has just come to light in the quiet little town of Gross Bedßlterek, in Southern Hungary. To look at, Gross Bedskerek is the personification of arcadian. simplicity, but, unfortunately, it looks a "great deal better than it really is, - A hundred women have just been tried there for murdering their husbands and sweethearts, by means of poisons purchased from a Meg Merrilles of the district. Of . the hundred women 30 have been convicted, aiid the remainder have been acquitted under highly suspicious circumstances. The poisoning of husbands of whom their consorts are a little tired used to be a favorite crime in Southern Russia, and it does not give rise to the pleasantest ofcotisiderationstofind the crime growing in this wholesale way. Analytical chemist's have struok a blow at the trade of the poison vendors in the more civilised portions of the world. By their assistance discovery is rendered pretty certain, and one can but regret that their existence had not been better known in South Hungary. In all the cases—in those where the women were convicted at least—the object prompting tho crime was the desire to change an old husband for a new lover j apd there jr reason to feftv (hat although; the . crimes have only just been discovered they have been of constant occurrenoo fur many years past,