Quizzing girl in poisoning of brothers
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Quizzing girl in poisoning of brothers

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · April 23, 1938

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Astoria, N.Y... Elizabeth Wagner, 22, is shown here as she was questioned by assistant district attorney Edmund C. Rowan in connection with the arsenic deaths of her two brothers, Henry and Charles, last week. Police announced that the girl had confessed putting rat poison in the milk and orange juice she served the boys. She gave no coherent motive for her alleged act.

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