HUSBANDS MURDERED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 893, 10 February 1930, Page 9

HUSBANDS MURDERED

HUNGARIAN WOMEN IN POISONING TRIAL

SPITE AT GALLOW’S EDGE United JP.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright BUDAPEST. Saturday. The Court at Syolnok was filled with horrified listeners when Frau Kardes- who was recently condemned to death, turned on her former friend, Mario Varga, and charged her with murdering her husband, her lover. Michael Anibros. and Ambros's grandfather, so that, she may not have to co to the gallows alone. Frau Kardos declared that she heard Varga cflfer five cwt. of wheat to the midwife. “Aunt Suzanne,’* to kill her husband. She added that he died in horrible agony. She had killed her own husband and son. and, therefore, knew how they died. Her desire for vengeance failed, as V arga escaped the death sentence, but she is to be imprisoned for life. Altogether 53 prisoners. mostly women, are indicted for these mass, poisoning crimes in Hungary. They are natives of the two Hungarian villages of Tiszakuert and Xagyrev, where it has been the practice for several years to remove unwanted husbands and inconvenient relatives by administering poison. Tn December three of the women wore sentenced to penal servitude for life and one to death by hanging.

Frau Takacs. aged 37, appeared at Syolnok. on a charge of poisoning her father-in-law, aged 70, and Frau Csabai, aged 42, was indicted for poisoning her husband.

All the prisoners, including those already sentenced. had attended earlier in the same courthouse the Christmas Nativity Feast, praying and singing carols. Thereafter. on the very spot where a Christmas tree had stood resplendent with glittering

candles. Frau Takacs and Frau Csabai awaited their judgment Trau Takacs, pleaded not guilty said that her father-in-law was a drunkard and had died from the effects of alcohoL She admitted having bought arsenic fly-papers, but onlw sue said, to have them ready for suni-

court, finding no convincing evidence, apart from a small quantity of arsenic in the old man’s corpse to. obstinate dp ™>*

'X?®? she was released she ran away hand?’ JudSo, 1 k:ss J' our Lordships

Frau Csa-bai was found guiltv o’’ poisoning her husband and sentenced to 15 sears penal servitude.