Philadelphia, Apr. 27.
A ten-year-old gang oí specialized poisoners, who struck down more than 100 victims to get at their insurance money, was uncovered by the police today after 1's years of determined investigations.
The circumstances surrounding the poisoning of the 100-odd persons in various States were splashed in most American newspapers today.
Leading to the climax was the arrest on April 21 of an Italian woman, Carina Fivato, who pleaded guilty to charges of having poisoned three men with arsenic. She alleged that another Italian, 55-year-old Cesare Valenti, had been the instigator of all three murders. She also accused him of being the leader of a gang of poisoners. Immediately after these disclosures one week ago. the local authorities ordered the arrest of Valenti but police searches for the man yielded no results Valenti had "gone out of circulation," it was finally revealed, because he had been arrested several months before on the charge of violating the New York States laws governing sale of alcohol He was to be set free next week but the Philadelphia police took eps to secure his extradition from ow York State to have him answer more serious charges pending nst him here.
Valenti, it was revealed today, worked chiefly through women whom he could persuade to poison their husbands for a share in the insurance money. There are seventeen suspects already behind bars in cone nection with this sensational case.—
Havas.
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