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...Mundelein is 51. Cardinal Merry del Val, Spaniard of massive face, "eyes as big as baseballs," is 59. He became Cardinal...
...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...
Miss Agnes Regan, Executive Secretary of the National Council of Catholic Women, has received the following letter from Cardinal Merry del Val, in regard to the resolution adopted by the Council, advocating the cause of the Beatification of Pope Pius...
...Signed) R. CARD. MERRY DEL VAL...
Marcelian del Val had paid the price upon the guillotine for having shot and killed three police officials last Spring in Toulon...