FULL TEXT: Vienna, Nov.
23. – Five men and two women were
recently arrested at Knez, in the Temesvar district of Hungary, for having
poisoned their wives and husbands.
Martha Petromany, a woman
who is known as the “poison mixer,” was also placed in custody for having sold
them arsenic to commit the murders.
A judge who has been investigating
the cases now reports that there has seen wholesale poisoning in the district,
and further arrests have been made. Catherine Biber is accused of poisoning her
son-in-law, because he was a drunkard, and also her parents, in order to obtain
the family estate.
Vassa Ardaloan is charged
with poisoning a wealthy widow aunt, whose sole legatee he was; Lenka Rogyok
with poisoning her husband, who had willed his properly to her; Nicholas Glass
with poisoning Anton Braun, to marry his widow, and Julia Wulcslsich with
poisoning her elderly husband to marry a young lover.
The poison in all cases
is to have been provided by Martha Petromany, who is alleged to have charged
$4.50 in each case. The attention of the police was directed to the murder
epidemic by an anonymous letter.
[“Town of Poisoners,”
Supplement to Poverty Bay Herald (Gisborne, New Zealand), Jan. 12, 1907, (p.
7)]
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