“Hirschfeld Black Widow,” Serial-Husband-Killer – Germany, 1852

 

 

FULL TEXT: In the village of Hirschfeld, not far from Schweinfurt, a peasant woman poisoned her husband, with whom she had only been married for a short time, with phosphorus, which she took from matches and put in the soup her husband ate whereupon he died. An investigation is underway. The woman is widowed for the third time, and her earlier husbands are said to have died under the same symptoms.

 

[“A Female Bluebeard.” (“Ein weiblicher Blaubart.”), Fremden-Blatt (Vienna, Austria), Sep. 11, 1852, p. 4]

 

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Hirschfeld is a part of the municipality of Röthlein in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt, in Bavaria, modern Germany.

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FULL TEXT: In dem Orte Hirschfeld, unweit Schweinfurt, hat eine Bauernfrau ihren Mann, mit dem sie erst kurze Zeit ve-heirathrt war, vergiftet, und zwar mit Phosphor, welchen fie von Zündhölzchen nahm und in die Suppe that, die ihr Mann aß, worauf er balv starb. Eine Untersuchung ist eingeleitet. Die Frau ist zum dritten Male verhrieathet, und es sollen, wie man sage, ihre früheren Männer unter denselben Anzeichen gestorben sein.

[“Ein weiblicher Blaubart.” Fremden-Blatt (Vienna, Austria), Sep. 11, 1852, p. 4] 

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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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