THE WOMAN THAT FAILED
The English mail brings.news of a tragedy that missed fire in Paris. A woman, apparently desirous of getting rid of her husband, rigged up an impromptu gallows in a loft above the bed where he lay sleeping, and fixed a rope round his neck. While she was returning to the loft the man awoke, and catching the humour of the situation, slipped the noose from his head and attached it to a small stove. He then lay down and watched the stove being slowly drawn up towards the ceiling. The woman, satisfied with the weight of the pull, rushed to the window, and cried loudly that her husband had hanged himself, but when the neighbours and street loungers hurried in they found the stove dangling in mid-air, and the wife being battered by the husband in a corner.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9000, 13 November 1907, Page 4
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142THE WOMAN THAT FAILED Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9000, 13 November 1907, Page 4
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