St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-09
THE HUSBAND PRISONERS.
Wives Who Sent Their Partners to
Death With Fly Paper.
Cor. London Telegraph.

'ANhha SOt LOuuOu teieRTdpD.
Marriage must be deemed failure,
at all events in the District OF Mitroyitz,
at which town ten women are now TAX
ing their trial OH the charge of poison
ing their husbands by means of arsenic,
Procured, as'suggeSted in the Maybrick
case, from fly papers. The accused are
hlakrena StankOvic, residing at Bingu-
la. aged forty-eight. with one child, and
charged with administering arsenic to
ner husband, neice, father-in-law and
nelghbor. and also with having supplied
arsenic which caused the death of five
Olher persons poisoned by their wives;
Nata NeStorOy, aged fort weight. mother
or four children, living at Bingula.
charged with poisoning her husband
with arsenic; Milica Plavsic, aged fifty
three, mother Of one child, living at
Dlvuscha, and charged with having
aided and allotted the two last named
prisoners IN poisoning their husbands by
Unylng fiy-papers for them at NensatZ;
Stephanie lllolc Baltic, aged forty-nine,
mother of one child, living at Bingula.
anu charged with poisoning her husband
With arsenic; Mara Danilovic Savkaric.
aged thlrty-SIX, married, living at Erde-
vic, and charged with having by the
same means poisoned her husband and
another man; Jela RadOjcic Ostojc,
aged thirty-nine, mother of four chill
dren, residing at Erdevic; Stevka Jag
maSevlc, aged fifty-fOur, with three
children. residing at Erdevic; Ljuba
Djakovic Illinaeki, fifty years old. moth
er of one child, living at Erdevic; Ljuba
Gavrlovic. aged thirty eight. with three
children. all charged with poisoning
their husbands by administering ar
senic; Sremcic, thirty-iive years old,
pharvn6 10
which caused his brOther's death. and,
finally, Milda Maralic. aged sixty, liuing
at Ncstln, charged with poisoning a
woman.
All the prisoners are peasants and be-
long TO the Greek orthodox religion.
They are ali accuse of murder, except
ing Siinon Sremcic and Milica Placsic.
The judicial expert, chemist from
Agram. declared that the traces of ar
senIc in the human body would be per-
ceptible in the hair and beard long
after complete decomposition of the in
teStInes. His testimony was borne out
by the condition of several bodies ex-
humed in connection with the Nitro
yitZ trial. The deaths occurred in 1880,
1888, 1884. 1884, 1855, 1856 and 1888, yet
distinct traces of arsenic were found.
In each case 1t had been obtained from
dy papers. Each sheet contained forty
five centigrammes Of the poisonous
drug, whereas ten to fifteen cent?
grammes are enough to cause the death
of strong man-therefore one paper
would suffice to kill three to four pto-
pie. According to partial confessions
made by sume Of the accused, their VIC
tins did not ali suffer the same length
of time. In certain instances
death followed rapidly, while in others
it came on gradually. Eva Sarac, who
died in prison last October, was the
instigator of these various crimes. She
was a kind of village witch. who pre-
pared love draughts for the girls of the
locality as well as poison for the men.
Fly-papers were often fetched for her
from Neusatz by the woman Plavszic,
and before her death she confessed to
having supplied Stankovic and Nestaroy
ssith arsenic TO poison their husbands.
Aiakrena Stankovic. tie leading per-
sonage in this terrible drama, was I'M
doubtedly pupil of Sarac. She lived
with her niece, whom she robbed of 100
forms. The latter threatened 10 prose-
| cute her. but was taken suddenly ILL
and died.