Saturday, April 25, 2020

Pidada Jovanovits, Poisoning Gang Leader – Serbia, 1908

FULL TEXT (Translated from Hungarian): In Panchová, as reported to us from there, Nikolics Kosta, a thirty-eight-year-old fiacre driver, died the other day.

On the same day, someone secretly informed István Madaras, head of the gendarmerie, that Nikolics had been poisoned.

Madarasi informed Sergeant György Benedek about the matter, who in turn communicated the secret to Deputy Sándor Szvoboda, Deputy Underwriter, Head of the Criminal Department.

The authority ordered the autopsy of the deceased.

The autopsy found, by examining the soles of his feet, that Nikolics had indeed been poisoned.

Suspicion was directed against the widow, in whose apartment a bottle full of hydrochloric acid and an arsenic mixture was found.

Under the weight of the evidence, the woman made a confession and admitted that she had poisoned her husband because she had abused her.

He also said he committed the act at the encouragement of a fifty-six-year-old nominee named Jovanovits Pidada. Both assassins were arrested.

[“Poison-mixing wife.” (“Méregkeverő feleség.”), Budapest Hirlap (Budapest, Hungary), Jun. 18, 1908, p. 12]

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FULL TEXT (translated from German): From Agram, the 17th. It is reported: The police in Pancsova discovered a gang of poison-mixers who had engaged in a lively trade in poison. Yesterday the widow was arrested after Nikolia, a fiacre driver who had died shortly before, and admitted after long denial that she poisoned her husband. As a result, the police tracked down a whole gang of poisoners. There are numerous other arrests pending.

[“A Poisoning Gang.” (Eine Giftmischerbande.), Arbeiterwisse (Graz, Austria), 19. Juni 1908, p. 3]

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Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, Hungarian: Pancsova, Romanian: Panciova, Slovak: Pánčevo) is a city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.  Pančevo is the fourth largest city in Vojvodina by population. According to the 2011 census, a total of 76,203 inhabitants live in the urban area, while the city administrative area of Pančevo has 123,414 inhabitants. [Wikipedia]

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FULL TEXT: Pancsován, mint onnan jelentik nekünk, a minap meghalt Nikolics Koszta harmincnyolc éves bérkocsi-tulajdonos.

Még ugyanaznap valaki titoktartás mellett közölte Madarast István csendőrőrsvezetővel, hogy Nikolicsot megmérgezték.

Madarasi értesitette a dologról Benedek György őrsvezetőt, a ki viszont közölte a titkot Szvoboda Sándor helyettes aljegyzővel, a bűnügyi osztály vezetőjével.

A hatóság erre elrendelte a halott fölboncolását.

A boncolás megállapította, hogy Nikolicsot valóban méreggel tették el láb alól.

A gyanú özvegye ellen irányult, a kinek lakásán egy sósavval és egy arzén-keverékkel telt üveget találtak.

A bizonyítékok súlya alatt az asszony töredelmes vallomást tett és beismerte, hogy férjét azért mérgezte meg, mert rosszul élt vele.

Elmondotta azt is, hogy egy Jovanovits Pidada nevű ötvenhat éves javasasszony biztatására követte el a tettet. Mind a két asszoynt letartóztatták.

[“Méregkeverő feleség. Budapest Hirlap (Budapest, Hungary), Jun. 18, 1908, p. 12]

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FULL TEXT: Aus Agram, wird vom17 .d. berichtet: Die Polizei in Pancsova hat eine Giftmischerbande entdeckt, die einen regen Handel mit Gift betrieben hatte. Gestern wurde die Witwe nach dem kurz vorher verstorbenen Fiakerbesißer Nikolie verhaftet und gestand nach längerem Leugnen, ihren Mann vergiftet zu haben. Dadurch kam die Polizei einer ganzen Giftmischerbande auf die Spur. Es stehen zahlreiche andere Verhaftungen bevor.

[Eine Giftmischerbande. Arbeiterwisse (Graz, Austria), Jun. 19, 1908, p. 3]

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http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2017/04/husband-killing-syndicates.html 
 
For more than two dozen similar cases, dating from 1658 to 2011, see the summary list with links see: The Husband-Killing Syndicates 
 
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