DIGGING UP HIS WIFE.

Shannon News, 26 August 1924, Page 1

DIGGING UP HIS WIFE.

A BUDAPEST SCENE. A strange scene thrilled the crowd in one of the picturesque corners of old Budapest, when twelve policemen arrived with a manacled prisoner and two workmen carrying spades, Stephan Forro, the prisoner, after being furnished with more wine than was good for him, had confessed to the detectives that he had killed his wife in a jealous rage, and had, buried her at the edge of the square one night. - • Ho indicated the spot, and watched the workmen dig, but they were slow, and Ferro snatched the spade from one of them and began digging energetically.

“Ah! I’ve found the place!” he exclaimed at last, and stooped to pick up an object. The. spectators nearly broke the cordon to see what he held in his manacled hand. It was a potato which the murderer had laid on the woman’s body, “to mark the spot,” he said, and it had sprouted. The body was found in a sack. When the police asked if he had qut. up the body,the man answered indignantly, “Certainly not! I buried her decently in the proper way!”