The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-17
TEN HUSBAND PRISONERS.
Women Who Disposed of Their Worse
Halves with FIy-Paper.

Women Who Disposed of Their Worser
Halves with Fly-Paper.
Marriage must be deemed failure, at
all events in the district of Mltrov1tz,
at which town ten women are now TAX
ing their trial on the charge OF poison
ing their husbands by means ofsarsenlc,
procured, as suggested in the Maybrick
case, from fy-papers. The accused are
Makrena Stankovic, residing at Blngu-
la, aged orty-eight, with one child, ana
charged with administering arsenic to
her husband, niece, father-in-law and a
neighbor, and also with having supplied
arsenic which cvused the death OF five
other persons, poisoned by their wives;
Nata Nestorov, aged forty eight,
mother of four children, living at Bin
gula, charged with poisoning her hus-
band with arsenic; Milica Plavsic, aged
fifty-three, mother of one child, living
at Divuscha and charged with having
aided and abetted the two last-named
prisoners in poisoning their husbands
by buying fly papers for them at Neusatz;
Stephanie Ilicic Baltic, aged forty-nln
mother of one child, living at Bingula,
and charged with poisoning her hus-
band with arsenic; Mara Danilovlc Saw
karic, aged thirty-six, married, living at
Erdevik, and charged with having by
the same means poisoned her husband
and another man; Jela Radoycic Ostojic,
aged thirty-nine, mother of four chill
dren, residing at Erdevik; Stevka Jag
masevic aged fifty-four, with three chill
dren, residing at Erdevik; Ljuba Djako-
vic Ilinacki. fifty-years old, mother OF
one child, living at Erdevik; Ljuba Cav
rilovic, aged thirty-eight, with three
children, living at Erdevik, all charged
with poisoning their husbands by adj
ministering arsenic; Simon Sremcic.
thirty-five years old, charged with pro-
viding the poison which caused his
brothers death, and finally, Milka
Maralic, aged sixty, living at Nestin,
charged with poisoning woman.
All the prisoners are peasants and be-
long to the Greek orthodox religion.
They are all accused of murder, except
Simon Sremcic and Milica Plavsic. The
judicial expert, a chemist from Agram,
declared that the traces of arsenic in the
human body would be perceptible in
the hair and beard long after
complete decomposition of the in
testines. His testimony was borne
out by the condition of several
bodies exhumed in connection with
the Mitrovitz trial. The deaths occurred
in 1880, 1888, 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1888,
yet distinct traces of arsenic were found.
In each case it had been obtained from
fy-papers. Each sheet contained forty
five centigrammes of the poisonous drug,
whereas ten to fifteen centigrammes are
enough to cause the death of strong
man, therefore one paper would suffice
to kill three or four people. According
to partial confessions made by some of
the accused, their victims did not all
suffer the same length of time In GER
tain instances death followed rapidly,
Eva Sarac, who died in prison last Octo-
Der, was the instigator of these various
crimes. She was kind of village witch,
who prepared love-draughts for the girls
of the locality as we'll as poison for the
men. Fly-papers were often fetched
for her from Nensatz by the woman
Plavsic, and before her death she con-
fessed to having supplied Stankovic and
Nestorov with arsenic to poison their
husbands. Makrena Stankovic, the
leading parsonage in this terrible drama,
was undoubtedly pupil of Sarac. She
lived with her niece, whom she robbed
of one hundred forms. The latter
threatened to prosecute her, but was
tako~ suddenly i'll and died. Vienna
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