MOCK DEATH
FOLLOWED BY A REAL DIVORCE. By Teleura-ph—Press Association—Copyright Stockholm, April 10. Karl Petersen, a wealthy merchant, who was married this year, became suspicious of his wife, and arranged with a doctor and a solicitor for a mock death. The husband was placed in a coffin, and his will read, leaving all his property to his wife. . ■ Directly the doctor and solicitor departed, the wife telephoned to her lover: "Splendid news. Monstrous husband dead." Tho lover arrived and kissed the wife. Petersen thereupon leaped out of the coffin and confronted them. The wife fainted, and the lover fled. Petersen was granted a divorce. -
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2121, 13 April 1914, Page 7
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104MOCK DEATH Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2121, 13 April 1914, Page 7
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