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Show POISON AND VENTHILOQUIBM. , Hi. IImdi 1.7 Wl.lt I. ill.. Han (lalntd I Antthtt'a Forlun.. I Americans aro not tho only people I who aro Ingenious In originating and committing crimes. Prom Vienna comes n most rcmarkablo story ot tha arrest of Horr Vogl, proprietor ot n largo exchange Ho Is charged with having poisoned. In April, 1000, a rich Kusslan named Taublu, who was supposed sup-posed to liao verbally bequeathed his property to Vogl, who has slnco en-Joyed en-Joyed IL Taubln, who was a Jaw miser and drunkard, lived In a squalid manner. man-ner. One night a policeman took him homo drunk and bleeding. A doctor who was summoned told Taubln's old charwoman to bring his friends as bo was dying. She brought Vogl, whom she know was an acquaintance of Tau-bin. Tau-bin. Vogl took a lawyer and clerk with him to tho miser's house. Upon arriving at tha bedside, the dying man. It Is stated, recovered sufficiently to say that nil his possessions should go to Vogl, after which ha died almost immediately, Tho bequest thus ostensibly os-tensibly mado In tho presence of witnesses wit-nesses was legally regular, and Vogl Inherited property to tho value ot 1200,000. Taubln's body was cremated. Ills Kusslan rolattvcs subsequently represented to tho pollco that Vogl poisoned blm, and they also declared that Vogl Is a ventriloquist and himself him-self spoko the words bequeattng the property to himself when Tauhln was already doad. |
