WOMAN HANGED
UNIQUE EVENT IN TURKEY. (United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) ■ CONSTANTINOPLE, December 14. For the first time in Turkish history, a woman was publicly hanged at iSparta for killing another woman. She walked to the gallbws and insisted on fixing the noose herself and thousands of villagers cursed her in a chorus as the signal was given for hanging.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 6
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66WOMAN HANGED Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 6
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