The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-20
TEN HUSBAND PRISONERS.
Wives Who Sent Their Partners tt
Death with FlY-Paper.

Wives Who Sent Their Partners to
Death with Fly-Paper
Viennd Correspondence of London Telegram
Marriage must be deemed failure, at all
events in the district of Mitrovitz, at which
town ten women are now taking their trial
on the charge of poisoning their husbands
by means of arsenic, procured, as suggested
IN the Mabrlck case, from fy-papers. The
accused are Makrena Stankovic, residi q at
Bingula, aged 4S, 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
caused the death of five other persons,
poisoned by their wives; Nata Nestorov,
aged As, mother of four children, living at
Blngula, charged with poisoning her nus
band with arsenic; Milica Plavsic, aged So,
mother of one child, living at Divuscha and
charged with having aided and allotted the
last-named prisoners in poisoning their hus-
bands by buying fy-papers for them at
Neusatz; Stephanie Ilicic Baltic, aged 40,
mother of one child, living at Bingula, and
charged with poisoning her husband with
arsenic; Mara Daailovic Savkaric, aged
80, married, living at Erdevik, aid
charged with having by the same means
poisoned ner husband and another man {;
Jela Radorcic Ostojic, aged SO, mother of
four children, residing at Erdevix; Stevka
Jagmasevic, aged 50, with three children,
residing at Erdevix; Ljuba Djaxovic
llinacki, so years old, m other of one child,
living at Erdevix; Ljuba Gavr.lovic, aged
%, with three children, living at Erdevix,
all charged with poisoning their husband
by administering arsenic; Simon Sremcic,
50 years old, charged with providing the
poison which caused his brothers death,
and finally, MilBa Maralic, aged 60, living
at Nestin. charged with poisoning
woman.
All the prisoners are peasants and: belong
to the Greek Orthodox religion. They are
all accused with murder, excepting Simon
Scremic and Milica Plavsic The judicial
expert, chemist from Agram, declared
that the traces of arsenic in the human
body would be perceptible in the hair and
bear dong after complete decomposition
of the intestines. His testimony was borne
out by the condition of several bodies ex-
humed in connection with the Mitrovitz
trial The deaths occurred in 1880, 1888,
1884, 1885. 1886 and 1885, yet distinct traces
of arsenic were found. In each case it
had been obtained from fy-papers. Each
sheet contained forty-five oentigrammes of
the poisonous drug, whereas ten to fifteen
centlgrammes are enough to cause the death
OF strong man-therefore one
to four people. According to
partial confessions made by some of the
accused, their victims did not all 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 prepared love-draughts
for the girls of the locality as we'll as poison
for the men. Fly-papers were often fetched
Tor her from Neusatz by the woman
PlavsIc, and before her death she confes sed
to having supplied Stankovic and Nestorov
with arsenic to poison their husbands.
Makrena Stankovic, the leading parsonage
IN this terrible drama, was undoubtedly a
pupil of Sarac. She lived with her niece,
whom she robbed of 100 forms. The latter
threatened to prosecute her, but was taken
suddenly i'll and died.