HUSBAND-MURDERS
HUNGARIAN WOMEN TRIALS. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] BUDAPEST, Dec. 27. The trial l>i the women concerned in the husband murders, cabled on December loth, has been resumed. Esther Takacs was acquitted, for lack of evidence to support the charge that she poisoned her father-in-law. She declared that lie had pursued her with unwelcome attentions. She admitted purchasing fly-paper, which she said, she intended to use for legitimate purposes in the following summer. The Public Prosecutor protested agi list the acquittal oi Marie. Casnbai, who declared that her husband was a drunkard, and ill-treated the family, and t.lmt he subsequently suicided. She withdrew her previous confession, hut she was found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to fifteen years. She has successfully appealed against the sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1929, Page 5
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