FULL TEXT: The trial of a woman named
Manko has begun at Lyck, in West Prussia. Manko is known as the “female bluebeard,” and has had
an extraordinary career. A woman of extreme
beauty, she was married eleven years ago, when eighteen years of age, to a man
named Zirsig who died suddenly after three years of an unhappy conjugal life.
Her second husband also died suddenly, while her third lord shot himself with a
revolver, but circumstances connected with his death raised the suspicion at
the time that the revolver had been placed in his hand after death. Years of
adventure followed, some of them spent in Paris, in which she had three or four
matrimonial experiences, ending disastrously to her husbands, who either
disappeared or were divorced. The body of her
first husband, Ziesig, has been exhumed and although so long buried, sufficient
strychnine was still found in the remains to kill
two men. About ninety witnesses are to be examined, among them being a man from
Paris with whom Manko lived.
[“A Female Bluebeard.” Wagga
Wagga Advertiser (Tasmania, Australia), Dec. 9, 1905, p. 6]
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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.
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