FULL TEXT: Königsberg i. Pr., 9th December. - The
landowner's wife Henriette Holstein in Neu-Pustlauken (Labiau district) has
been sentenced to death for murder, committed by arsenic poisoning, of her
first husband, his eleven-year-old daughter and the ten-year-old stepson. The
motive of the deeds was greed.
["A Triple Murdereress." Salzburger
Volksblatt (Austria), December 10, 1915, p. 7]
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FULL TEXT: Königsberg (Prussia), 17 May. – The
proprietor's wife Henriette Holstein from Pustlauk, Labiau district, was
executed at the the local court prison. On December 10, 1915 she was convicted
of threefold poisoning, committed on her first husband, Christian Schapp, her
eleven-year-old daughter Amanda Schapp and her ten-year-old stepson Hans
Holstein. She poisoned her husband so she could marry another. The children
were poisoned for their inheritance. She was sentenced to death. An hour before
her final walk, the poisoner made a full confession.
[“Execution of a poison killer.” Grazer Tagblatt (Austria),
18. Mai 1916, p. 12]
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