Show AUSTRIAN CASE GROWS SENSATIONAL Ingenuity of the Alleged Criminal Creates Astonishment on 01 All Al AlSides I I Sides Special Cable Cabe to Vienna April 15 There are two more victims to be added to the thelong thelong long list of persons whose w ose lives have been sacrificed or or careers reelS c ruined by bythe bythe bythe the Hofrichter poison case They are Soloman an official of the before which Lieutenant Hofrichter is being tried and his this sister Sofie Tur eced a poor dressmaker who have been arrested for smuggling letters from cell to his relations Their motives seem to have been merely compassion for the prisoner These Th se letters show the tile astonishing in int 1 t of ot o f the man who as Lieutenant was liked and generally es est e et t 1 med a as a hard working if IC not very brilliant officer while under the name of ot Dr Haller Hailer he be led a second life tin in which he as us is th alleged made a practice of oC decoying young oung girls and also con conf f H ved ed a diabolical scheme for tor polson poison ng fifty officers of or the tile general staff to tomake tomake make mike way for his own promotion One of the h officers it will be remembered fell into uto the trap and died The intercepted letters written by Hof HoC Hofrichter Hofrichter richter in his hI cell indicate that his I thoughts have been turning towards sui sul suicide cide elde ide This Is a change of ot attitude for when he be was arrested last December re ro repeated repeated opportunities were given him to do aw with himself He however con consistently consistently refused to make use of the loaded revolvers which were wert placed con conveniently by his side Now he h has been making attempts and has partly parth succeeded l in them to smug smuggle smuggle gle gift poison Into his celL oelL It Is however possible that he ha wished the poison polson not for suicide but to assist assiat him In simu simulating simulating lating madness His ingenuity in ask asking tog ing his wife to insert the poison polson in flowers which he requested in order as ashe ashe aslie he lie said to place thorn them on n the altar which he lie had bad erected in his eel cells Is i reminiscent of or the Dr lit Haller Hailer phase of ot his ear earlier earlier lier her Jekyll and Hyde existence One of oC the Intercepted letters to his wife wile reads I should like to commit suicide but butwill butwill butwill will not as I 1 must work for you ou and for the child born dur during ng his Imprison Imprisonment ment mont You can an save sae me rae T Get me m as a quickly quIck aa as possible roa ble some S or Victor or uncle incIe will ob obtain obtain tain tam If It for you Not liquid but solid Put It carefully In a small quill and seal It up with wax Put this quill quillin in a carnation The Tho calyx will hide bide it well Then tie the t e calyx around with a thread as they do in florists shops hops In another flower put henbane seed loose without a quilL The clerical newspapers which had hitherto strongly supported Hofrichter on account of oC the religious hysteria which he ho had manifested since his arrest are furiously Curiously indignant at the cunning which I underlay his requests for tor flowers for pious purposes It appears that some poison polson actually reached him thus thu or in some equally Ingenious fashion It also appears that newspapers have hava been smuggled into his cell oell The au authorities authorities believe bellew that Hofrichter was on the brink or of confession conf slon before he came cameto came cameto to know of oC the violent press campaign which was being conducted in his be behalf behalf behalf half From Froni that day It Is 18 said he quite altered the course of his defense having read re that he could not be condemned to death unless he confessed whereas if It he l confessed he be would be liable to death il ath by strangulation The states that the prisoner actually established communication with two Vienna newspapers pers and that an Inquiry into the matter matte was being made This Thill may account for the tile col columns columns columns of details of the secret court martial proceedings which have haLe been di dl divulged divulged At house at ut LInE Uns Linsan LInEan an astonishing collection of oC various pot poi poisons sons and drugs is said to have been een dis discovered covered by r the police pollee |