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Show TraOXAL TRIAL Ten Women 'Before the Bar of Justice Charged With Poisoning Their Husbands Hus-bands With Fly Paper. THE DESTROYER SOLD BY A GIPSY. Married Today Grand Masonic DemonstrationLaboring Demon-strationLaboring lor the World's Fair Society All Excitement. Vikxna, July 21. Special. A horrible hor-rible trial is now taking place at Mitro-w Mitro-w itz, in Hungary, where ten women are arraigned for having poisencd their husbands with arsenicated fly paper. Tho preliminary examination of this affair has lasted more than three years, and during that time several of those who were orignally accused have died. Among these is tho gipsy woman who sold the poison, and who it is alleged, instigated all the crimes. She seems to have occasioned a regular epidemic of murders, which was mistaken at the time for an outbreak of cholera. Arsenic Ar-senic was found in tho bodies of no fewer than twenty-eight men, who were exhumed after tho suspicions sus-picions of tho attthortics were aroused but in many of the cases it has been found impossible to procure evidence as to who actually administered adminis-tered tho poison. Several" suspected women took to flight as soon ns the judicial ju-dicial investigations began, and havo not since been heard of. Altogether more that sixty women have at different differ-ent times been arrested and discharged, but there is overwhelming evidence against the ten who are now on trial. A singular feature in this sinister affair is that all tho victims of the murder epidemic ep-idemic were married men, and the indictment in-dictment accuses their wives of having poisoned them in oribir that tho women might lead licentious lives unrestrained. |