WIFE'S MAD REVENGE.
A deserted wife took a terrible revenge on the woman who had supplanted her, in the Nouveau Theatre, at Algiers, the other evening.
She followed her faithless spouse, a man named Apesquino with his new love, into the stalls of the buiTding, having previously armed herself with a bottle of vitroil and a razor. Before the curtain had risen the wife steatbily approaching her rival, threw the contents of the bottle uf vitrol into her face. The victim was terribly burnt, and will prooably lose the sight of one eye. But the wife did not stop here, tor taking a firm grip of the other woman by the hair, she proceeded to cut her throat with the razor. The horrified spectators interfered in time to prevent her accomplishing her purpose.
The victim is now in the hospital, and in a serious condition. Severn 1 persons seated near the woman were burnt by the vitriol.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 23 May 1910, Page 5
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157WIFE'S MAD REVENGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 23 May 1910, Page 5
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