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French Doctor Laget Guilty of Poisoner’s Crimes at Montpellier
A jury convicts Dr. Pierre Laget, a Montpellier dentist, of murdering his sister and poisoning his two wives with arsenic and curare. His aged mother testifies against him, recounting the family’s tragedy as Laget faces the guillotine with no reprieve for poisoners in France.
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