HUNGARIAN CRIME
DEATH BED CONFESSION. PARIS, August 20calling in a priest and neighbours, a dying villager in the Sarthe Department confessed.to having a rich widow in February, 1904, and decamped with a large sum of money. Suspicion fell on a %brother-in-ljvw of the victim, who was acquitted. The real criminal was not suspected. He lived respectably for 27 years afterwards, but said, that he hadl been haunted with the crime and awakened every night with a vision of his victim. After having confessed, he died*-
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1931, Page 4
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85HUNGARIAN CRIME Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1931, Page 4
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