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Marie Margarethe Beier, called Grete Beier (* 15 September 1885 in Erbisdorf; "Â 23 July 1908 in free mountain executed) was a Their execution was the last public in the kingdom Saxonia.
Grete Beier was the daughter of the Brander of mayor Ernst Theodor Beier and his Mrs. Ida Karoline, born Clausnitzer.
In the year 1905 Grete Beier had become acquainted with the action assistant Johannes Heinrich indicator and without knowledge of its parents secretly with it had gotten engaged. After it had broken the relationship off with it because of its unfaithfulness, it became acquainted with 1906 upper engineer Heinrich Moritz Curt Pressler and got engaged when desired parents with it.
Gretes relationship to Pressler remained always cool and because of its herrischer kind came it quite soon to controversy between both. Thereupon it took secretly the contact to indicator, against which in the meantime because of suppressions one determined. From this traffic it became more schwanger and let the child in November 1906 drive off.
Its official fiance Pressler planned for the 14. May 1907 the wedding. Grete sought to prevent this and made at the same time indicator hopes, in which she passed on him falsified love letters of a existenten Italian named Ferroni at Pressler.
After in the April 1907 a relative, which had deceased managers of the poorhouse in free mountain, falsified, stole it its will money from one in the house of its parents kept cartridge and main header its saving off, whereby it divided the money with indicator.
At the same time in a Freiberger newspaper a reader inquiry was answered and printed for the organization of a will for the installation of the bride as a sole heiress.
Few days later Grete Beier a falsified will of their bridegroom put and poisoned it the day before to the wedding on in Chemnitz with cyanide potash, shot it then with a gun into the mouth, in order to pretend its Suizid. Immediately after the act she sent away further letters of the Mrs. Ferroni, in order to make the Suizid convincing.
In May 1907 the theft from the cartridge was determined. In the course of the determinations it tried with further falsifications and lies to direct the suspicion on others.
After its arrest in June 1907 also a procedure was introduced because of illegal abortion. Also their loved indicator was arrested a little later. In November then their confession of the murder at Pressler followed.
After a request for grace had been rejected by the king, Grete Beier was guillotiniert on 23 July 1908 at the age by 22 years on the scaffold in the Albert park in free mountain by the national executioner Moritz fire.
See also: Death penalty
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