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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, ARSENIC MURDER MYSTERY.

POISONING DRAMA IN HUNGARIAN VILLAGES.

FIFTY WOMEN ARRESTED."

NOVEMBER 26, 1929.

HOOVER'S BIG PROGRAMME.

TO PUT UNEMPLOYED ON

ROAD, BUILDING.

Hungary is in the grip of one

Chance Discovery.

Washington, Nov, 19-An ex- pansion of the United States Gov. of the most amazing poisoning dramas in the history of the world.

Nobbody knew that anything was Even the great Croydon mystery rong until one day a medical stud-ment building programine by "G.$175,000,000 in addition to the pales into obscurity before it at decided to analyse a body wash- $218,000,000 previously authorized is being urged upon Congress by Nothing can exaggerate the tenseed up by the River Tisza near the feeling of terror, anxiety, and sus village of Navyrev. The theory of Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the picion that has everywhere been suicide did not satisfy his inquir Treasury.

ing mind. He discovered a huge Fifty women in prison on the quantity of arsenic, and reported charge of poisoning their men- the matter to the police.

aroused.

folk.

Scores of exhumations.

Whole villages suspect. Two suicides.

A priest insane.

begun.

To understand the psychological background for murder on such a grand scale only a little imagina tion is required.

In the opinion of Mr. Mellon, this will assist markedly in bring ing about the success of the project ed "Hoover prosperity program-

toward

That was the beginning. The po lice started to dig in the graveyard || me." of the little village, and experts

conference The "first exhumed the bodies of Josef Ne achievement of the President's pro- darasz and Michaek Szabo. Enorm-gramme is to take place at the And the inquiries have only justous amounts of arsenic were re White House at 11 o'clock ta-mor-

vealed.

row morning. Presidents of 19 railroads as well as the famous financier, Mr. Thomas Lamont, fr. Mellon and the president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce are to attend the meeting.

Meanwhile several Congressional President Hoover the proposal for leaders have been discussing with nation-wide system of highspeed express motorways to assist in stablizing employment in the Unit ed States while at the same time

Picture the broad rolling plain that is Hungary, smiling land of pastures and peasants where little has changed in the few hundred

years since it was first the home of

the Asiatic Hung and the cradle

of modern Europe.

No Doctors in Villages. Imagine the lonely little home- steads separated by miles of corn fields: the villages self-contained. self-thinking, self-ruled; men and women living and dying in the shadow of their homes.

Then the flood of anonymous let ters began to for The police stations hummed with activity, and the first arrests were made. Nine women-mothers, wives, daugh tera-confessed that two midwives, one in their own village and one from the neighbouring one Tixxakurt, had supplied them with poison over a period of years.

Too Late,

of

The police went to arrest the mid-providing additional transporta-

tion facilities. wives, but they arrived too late, One had hanged herself and the other taken a dose of her own con coction. In each of the witches dans the police discovered piled-up Heaps of those By-papers which con.

Remember there is no, doctor in the villages, no trained nurse, no tain arsenic. The midwives had hospital, no clinic. Only an ignor- used them in making their secret ant elderly midwife supplies these brew. For the poison thus obtain wants. She is called the wino woed so easily and inexpensively high man, but she is wise only in one payments in cash or kind were de thing her knowledge of the peas-manded. ant mind.

Many a wife went without fires through the winter when her hu hand died mysteriously in the

autumn.

The exhumations

continued.

She is at once lady of the manor district nurse, confidants of all and Rossip-in-chief. Her house combi- nes the amenities of the villages club,-village institute, beauty parl our, chemist's shop and doctor's | Every corpse unearthed contained consulting room Present at every enough arsenic to kill twenty men birth and at every death, she per-Death was not slow or subtle. The forms the last rites, dispenses me- victims had died in a few hours dicines, love potions-and- paison, and the excuse put forward by the She is the modern equivalent of the "distressed", widow or daughter Zulu witch doctor.

was identical: My man was never The wise woman realises more the same since the war. He came clearly than any can the tragedy of back suffering from stomach troulr- the land, that binck shadow that. It got worse and worse until reparates father and children, hus-he died." The coroner would band and wife, old age and youth. In Hungary, last stronghold of the feudal baron, every one at heart is still farmer. But since the war there has not been enough land to go round. Nobbody shares. Old patriarchs keep a tight. grip on their precious heres and only death transfers ownership.

Single Inheritance. The age-old tradition of single. inheritance renders more than one child in the family superfluous. That is where the midwife steps in. The sudden death of children ar elders means wealth, for the women left behind and something tangi- ble for the witch. The backward- ness of the people, the quaint vil. lage "coroner." ignorant of the first principles of law and medicine, and the unsuspecting gendarmerie combine to make murder easy.

Gradually a callous indifference to inflicting death and a strange infectivity is bred among the wo- men, who east longing locks on Nahath's Forbidden Vineyard. The lust for land is stronger than fami- ly ties Murder becomes business.

fumble with his pen, scrawl out an illiterate certificate of natural death-and the midwife pocketed

her fee

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'MR. J. DANIELS" SPEAKS OUT.

ATTACK ON BIG FINANCIERS.

Cleveland, O., Nov, 17.-Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson admini. stration, in a speech before the City Club here, declared that "now that all the little sheep have been shorn in a $36,000,000,000 glock crash, President Hoover calls upon the business men of the nation to stabilize the market for the Rocke- fellers, the Mellons and such peo- ple who bought in near the low

point.

"It is important that the market

be settled now," he continued ironi- cally. "It was not so important before.

offers a one-cent tax reduction as Meanwhile Secretary Mellon bi, bit toward making up for the billions lost by the little fellows,

Mr. Daniels struck at the present trend toward mergers, especially in the field of utilities, declaring that the power trust is the country's greatest present danger.

He flayed the "big navy" advo- cates and praised former Presi Newton Baker, former Secretary dent William Howard Taft, Mr. of War, and the late Mr. Theodore Burton for their part in furthering the cause of world peace.

(Continued on next Column.)

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There is as yet no indication na to whether President Hoover in- tends to adopt the scheme as an ad- ministration project, but it is ar- derstood that some encouragement has been given.

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A remarkable story of a prison- er's fatal pretence to hang himself was related at an inquest at Pen- touville Prizon last month. The prisoner, Abraham Lawrence Lyons, aged 26, who was serving an 18 months' sentence, was found hanging in his cell by one of the prison medical officers.

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Two prisoners who stated they were unknown to each other said that at different times they had conversations with Lyons. One 84.70 stated that Lyons, who until re- cently had been prison barber, said to him, "I am on hunger strike,

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More Arreata Dally. Scarcely a day passes now with out more arrests in these two vil ages. Thero is not one family but has one or more members in gacl. One woman confessed to killing all her nearest relatives, seven people in all, to secure a tiny strip of land. She gave the midwife band. les of dry branches painfully cel-I want to get shifted, and that lected from the woods.

is the only way to do it and get on the observation landing." (witness) told Lyons that that was no good, and Lyons raplied, "I am going to have a good try. Two or three of the officers have been to my cell and tried to persunde me not to be a fool. Still, I don't } $5.05 "care; if I fail that way I shall ge

presence of witnesses that if he does to the governor and say in the not shif the from where I am shall hang myself. It is quite easy. I shall just step on a stool and pre- tend to do it."

The habit of killing became such a part of village life that quite young women joined the Sisterhood of Death. Pretty wives who had been forced to marry rich old peas ants poisoned their husbands. and married their lovers.

The only problem that seemed to baffle the murderesses was how to dispose of the poison. One simple minded widow buried a bottle of it in her husband's grave. It was found by the police at the foot of the coffin.

Sir Bernard Spilsbury said thas death was due to asphyxia.

Major A. C. Banke, the Gover- nor of the prison, said that Lyons He

CHARGES AGAINST PANEL, BALLET BATHES AT ETON. was a conceited young man.

DOCTOR.

PATIENT'S DEATH AFTER A GNAT BITE.

panel

Allegations against Hector, Dr. R., J. Spain, of West Ealing, W. were recently in vestigated by a barrister and two doctors at the Ministry of Health.

The Middlesex Insurance Com- mittee were stated to have repre, sented that Dr. Spain failed to give adequate medical attention and treatment to л panel patient, Henry James Gardner, of Hanwell; that he was under the influence of drink on May 15 last; and that it would be

prejudicial to the efficiency of the panel service if Dr. Spain remained on the medica: list. The patient Gardner died in hos- pital on May 18 following gaat bite. He first called on Dr. Spain en May 13. It was alleged that the doctor was under the influence of drink when he called for the second .time at the man's house. He pro- mised to call again next day. May 16, so that the patient could be sent to hospital, but did not arrive, and another, doctor was summoned.

Doctor's Illness.

Dr. T. A Heneghan said that be attended Dr. Spain on May 16, and found him in bed with a tempera- ture of 101 degrees and a congested lung. He had never seen Dr. Epain under the influence of drink.

Two witnesses stated that they Faw Dr. Spain on May 15, and that be was not then under the influenco of drink.

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NIGHT WATCHMAN WHO

ACTS AS CENSOR.

Surreptitious midnight bathing parties in the private swimsing pools of Elon have been causing the college officials anxiety.

Above Windsor Bridge there is a pleasant tree-enclosed backwater with green lawns and banks where most young Etonians make their brat acquaintance with Father Thames,-"

During the hot nights it was dis covered by Londoners. Theatrical parties would motor down to the pot, have a champagne supper on the bank, and swim in the clear and sequestered waters.

This the college authorities to lerated.

But when one of them, armed with an electric, torch. discovered that a large party of ballet dancers had, after supper, plunged in with.

out

was felt that their hospitality was ceremony or costumes, it being abused.

However, the authorities did not. actually prohibit midnight bath- ing. All they did was to appoint a night watchman. He was to sit up and act as a censor on the be haviour and decorum of any par ties who might elect to visit Eton's bathing pool.

As long as the partics acted in a "seemly and proper" manner, he merely sat in his lonely little" hut and said nothing. If, however, he observed anything which overstep-

Dr. Spain said he had an arrange-ed the bounds of polite.behaviour. ment with a local doctor to take he went up and gave the offenders over his work, in an emergency, but a fatherly lecture!

this did hot materialise on May 16: The Arbiter of River Conduct owing to a misunderstanding has been so duts, almost ASK

night.

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A verdict of death by misadven- ture was returned by the jury.

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