MURDER FOR VANITY
WOMAN LOOKS TOO OLD SO KILLS SON POISONING TRiAL United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 11 a.m. BUDAPEST, Friday. The arsenic poisoning trial has begun of Maria Szendi, who is charged with murdering her 23-year-old son because he made her look too Gld in the eyes of her young lover. Mrs. Szendi is a popular hostess at tea parties among the well-to-do peasantry of Zolnok. It is alleged that her husband died of poisoning after thrashing her for infidelity. The second husband died similarly after threatening her with divorce. The intense ambition to own land of simple peasants, who would do anything to obtain a small plot on which to work from dawn to dusk, is stated to be the chief motive for a remarkable series of alleged poisonings of husbands, for which the trial of 60 women from the villages of Tiszakurt and Nahyrev was begun on December 11. In most cases, after the husbands had mysteriously died, their widows, having inherited the land, married younger men better able to help in tlie tilling.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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176MURDER FOR VANITY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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