AUSTRIAN TRAGEDY
ANOTHER POISONING CASE
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) BUDAPEST, Feb. 7
What is regarded as probably the worst of Hungarian poisoning dramas is being unfolded at Szolnok. Maria Varga is charged with poi-
' soning her husband and also her loverj Michael Ambros. The story goes that her husband was Hungary’s first soldier blinded in the war, a victim of a shell burst on the Russian front. His wife, disgusted at being burdened, held a reception and called in the “widowmaker, Auntie Sussie.” Her husband died in agony after a second dose of arsenic.
Stories are circulated in the village of how the ghost of the blinded soldier as seen tapping a stick round the churchyard, turning his sightless sockets towards the farm. The widow declared the house was haunted, and took in Ambros who died in similar agony. Maria’s defence was that she believed the “widow-maker’s” medicine was harmless.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1930, Page 5
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