Here is a sample of the sort of “first wives’ clubs” you will find when you explore the collection of “Husband-Killing Syndicates.” Most of these news accounts deal with Eastern European cases. Here is one from Yugoslavia in 1926 called “The Lucretia Club.”
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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]
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