FULL TEXT: Emilie Bienert, a girl of thirteen, has been sentenced at Hamburg to eighteen months' imprisonment for wilful murder.
The child, who had been abandoned by her parents and was of an unruly disposition, had been placed by the authorities in a reformatory school at Interbog.
On three occasions she had effected her escape from the institution, and each time, on being conveyed back, she was subjected to severe chastisement.
Emilie then resolved to avenge herself upon Sister Clara, the manageress of the school.
Having gathered some poisonous wild cherries, she steeped them in brandy, and placed a glassful of the, mixture on Sister dressing-table, knowing that she was in the habit of drinking cherry brandy before retiring for the night.
Meanwhile the girl had told her school-mates that Sister Clara was about to die, and that she would be replaced by another matron, who would treat all the children very generously.
Sister Clara, however, noticing that the cherry brandy was of a very dark colour, threw it away untouched.
Emilie then procured some sulphuric acid, which she had stolen from a factory, and poured it into Sister Clara's waiter-glass.
The matron, after sipping a quantity of the poisoned water, had her lips badly corroded, but again escaped death.
The third time the child-murderess mixed some white lead with her teacher's coffee, with the result that the woman died in great agony a few hours after drinking it.
[“Child Murderess - School Mistress Poisoned,” Evening Express (Cardiff, Wales), Aug. 15, 1905, p. 2]
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