webster who was later found to have traces of arsenic in his hair and fingernails coffee that had been prepared by the defendant mrs daisy demelka the trial ended on the NUMBER_TOKENth of november and mrs demelka was confident that she would be acquitted the judge summed up the case he informed the courts that the prosecution had been unable to prove conclusively that mrs demelka's first two husbands mr william cowell and mr robert sproats had died of stricken poisoning he said it does not convince me nor does it convict the accused however on the charge that mrs demelka had poisoned her own son the judge informed the pact courtroom that he had come to the inescapable conclusion but the defendant was guilty he then passed a sentence of death when he asked for defendant if she had anything to say she replied that she was innocent daisy de melka was hanged on the NUMBER_TOKENth of december NUMBER_TOKEN at the pretoria central prison she was then buried in an unmarked grave to this day people still discuss why she poisoned her only son some speculates that when rhodes cecil turned NUMBER_TOKEN he would have been entitled to inheritance from his father's estates inheritance the days he may have already spent at the trial rhodes cecil's stepsister miss eileen demelka described him as lazy and as someone who didn't really want to work possibly because his mother had indulged him all of his life however there were other witnesses who thought him to be a bright and conscientious young man daisy's husband sydney clarence de melka always thought his wife to be innocent mrs daisy america always proclaimed her innocence so any reasons she had for committing her crimes she took with her to her grave
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