Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-15
EPIpE1IICS OF POISONING.

A Crime in Which Women Have Be- l
 come wheIeaaIe Participants.
 About 1850, sAys the St. Louis Globe l Democrat, poisoning society Of wives WAs | discovered in Rome. Great numbers of l young widows wers arrested and put to the torture They disclosed the secrets Of their conspiracy snd acknowledged that l woman named EicrcnymA Spsra supplied them with poison. For year the courts were busy trying the csses; fourteen wo- men were hanged, eighteen committed
 suicide either In prison or to evAde arrest, nearly one hundred were publicly whipped
 through the streets, nearly three hundred
 lied from Rome and Italy 10 Avcsd puuish- 1 ---., --1 -t---s .--e L-.-y1-ail r-anre agssnst
 whom tbe evidencs WAS not strong enough
 to secure conviction, were ordered out Of ' the city and forbidden to return.
 ! One ot ths most demoaiac po!soners of
 modern times was the infamous Mme.
 Brinyilliers, who, betEesr l668 and 1876, poisoned her father and her tEo brothers in order to secure tO herself the family ] es;ate. and, finding it easy che proceeded l to destroy 8 number of other persons 10
 gratify pers1nal psQue- Like Cleopatra,
 she expsrimentNd with pO.soDs, carrying t>onisnned biscuits aud daintics ;o the hcspi-
 ia!s of Paris and giviug them In Epparen;
 charity to the patients AnunbeT Ut these
 unfori1nA;es were thus destroyed. but no
 suspicion fell upon her with regard tu
 their death, nor was she tuspected uatil
 the death of A number Of persons whOsa
 lives stood between her and inc coveted
 inheritance asoussd inquiry. She was put . to death. with horrible tortuTes, il 1876 The tEo most popular French pussoner' of the seventeenth century were two FTeuot . wos--n, Lsvoisin and Ley5gcTsax. They had given sense of huu5oz- They called
 their poison by fRcetiOus names Some . times tt was ''successiOn powder" becaus' , hS its aid an heir could quickly enter on sI esIst.; sometimes 1t was called ''Pssc' , powder" because !. induced harmony be . tween jarriug couples. They were both
 arrested, tried, convicted and burned alive
 in She PIacs de GFeve In 1880. and from
 information given by them uver ffty
 French widows who had dispnBei uf 'heti
 consortE, snd nearly forty sons and daush
 tsrs who ha; murdered their pRrsn;s. wer' convicted and executed NoF; ot tbos.
 who were pu7sshei were of thu middle and lower claseer. The wealthy and uubi@ es ! caped Over eight thoussnd prison easel were tried by the c0uEtS in four years
 After the execution Of the two nsss WbC ' furnished the poEi-Ts nearly three 'hou i | sand mzn and women @ere pEal~iatd ni ' whipping. braB3ios, imprisonment "r eKE !. . lie, and thus sAloi ths most noitd Fleaee T epidemic c: p0is ni'
 Cesar Bur-iA was the most sato:1I.l I.lihht' ' pa.soner Cf any age H. poisut,d LtZ 10 l. tse brother of Bajszst II in order 10 pos r s.ss hIms-lf of biz property GioEsnn BattI-ta F.yrAtA. the richrs- sna mos: in
 fiurntiSl siign;tsry .'f the papa. court, WA
 his next victim. BorglA adu' ini-ieItd th poison tn him in a friendly glass ": wine
 and after ni- death seized Cn his posses
 sions. Soon after this he attempted | s poison his own brother, Giovanni Borgis Is but the dose proving slow Cesar had hii IS stabbed. After many otber crimes of thi character he formed tho bold design ( 'f poisoning four of the richest cardinals
 Rome and seizlng their cstztes- By acc B. dent the poisoned wine was aGminis;e!e 1t to himself and his father, Pope AleSAnc'