FULL TEXT: Belgrade, Jugoslavia — A club of women poisoners under the guise of a charitable organization with the significant name of “Lucretia” has been raided by the police.
Police asserted that at secret meetings the club members were taught the medieval art of mixing and administering poisons. Six women who were unhappily married were declared thus to have found means of ridding themselves of their husbands. The remains of these were exhumed and in two cases toxicologists have found traces of poison.
Five women of the club were charged with being the ringleaders of the organization and arrested.
[“Club Of Women Poisoners Is Unearthed In Belgrade,” syndicated (AP), The Galveston Daily News (Tx.), Oct. 20, 1926, p. 1]
NOTE: Such organizations were common in eastern Europe (primarily in the Austro-Hungarian Empire) from the mid-1800s through the 1930s. They claimed many hundreds of victims. What was unusual about this one was its brazenness: it was publicly promoted as a charity.
For more than two dozen similar cases, dating from 1658 to 2011, see the summary list with links see: The Husband-Killing Syndicates
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NOTE: Such organizations were common in eastern Europe (primarily in the Austro-Hungarian Empire) from the mid-1800s through the 1930s. They claimed many hundreds of victims. What was unusual about this one was its brazenness: it was publicly promoted as a charity.
For more than two dozen similar cases, dating from 1658 to 2011, see the summary list with links see: The Husband-Killing Syndicates
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