CRIME: German Cooking

First woman sentenced to death in Ohio was Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther in 1931. She pleaded guilty in a second trial, got off with a life sentence. Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton oil.

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