FULL
TEXT: A remarkable case of wholesale poisoning has just come to light in the
Hungarian market town Knecz in the county of Temcsvar [currently Romania]. On
the strength of anonymous information that half the persons buried in the
cemetery there had died of poison, the authorities ordered 25 bodies to be
exhumed, and analysts found considerable quantities of arsenic in 13 of them.
So far four husbands and eight wives have been arrested on charges of suspected
poisoning of their spouses. Among the arrested are two women who murdered two
successive husbands, and one peasant who poisoned three wives. A woman named
Petrubany [“Petromany” in other sources] was arrested when the discovery was
first made, and now another woman called Hazyok has been arrested for providing
the villagers with poison. Both poisoned their own husbands without exciting
the least suspicion and they made business of helping other women and men to
get rid of their husbands wives, taking payment in money or provisions, pigs,
calves, etc
[“Wholesale
Poisoners.” Mt. Sterling Advocate (Ky.), Apr. 24, 1907, p. 5]
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