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SHOCKING STORY OF CRIME.A woman of good family and position has been arrested at Lipcs, in Hungary^for the murder of six of her children. The accused is a widow namedSophie von Mesko, who has long had a notoriously bad character bothon account of her dissipated life and the number of her lovers. Aslong ago as July last the corpses of two of her children’ were, foundIn the neighbourhood of a church near her residence,'and she was arrested onsuspicion of having caused their death. Quite recently the police, in the course of a domiciliary visit, discovered the diary in which she had entered with the greatest minuteness a number of details concerning her relations with her many lovers, and the still more damaging revelation that she had killed four other children by different lovers. She also appears topoisoned one of the latter. It was also stated in the diary that she had buried two of her children in the cellar of her house; and, on being taken to this cellar, she exhumed the bodies of the two children with the greatest coolness. The two other children she buried in an adjacent forest, and up to the present time these have not been found. Poison was found among her effects. The woman, who seems to have no feeling of horror or remorse for what she has done, has another child, a daughter by her husband,who will inherit the large possessions of her mother.
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London St James Gazette An Evening Review and Record of News
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 26, 1889
Page 9
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