MODERN BLUEBEARD.
KILLED SEVEN WIVES
EIGHTH BECOMES INSANE.
ONLY ONE BODY DISCOVERED
United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received October 2, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. The miraculous escape of Bluebeard’s eighth Wife, told in the fairy tale, has been re-enacted in real life. A man named Kulaxides, who was arrested on the eve of his eighth wedding, was charged with the murder of his seven wives. The police entered the house at the height of the merrymaking. The bride, a rich widow, who had made over her property to Kulaxides, was so distracted that she became insane and was sent to an asylum. The fate of six of the women has not been solved. The body of the seventh has been discovered in a ravine in Macedonia, terribly disfigured. The long immunity enjoyed by Kulaxides was the result of his changing his name and domicile. A detective who was investigating the death of the seventh wife sawprisoner shortly before the tragedy and recognised him again in Athens -and then discovered that before the disappearance of each wife Kulaxides journeyed abroad with his wife and returned alone.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18139, 2 October 1930, Page 8
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187MODERN BLUEBEARD. Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18139, 2 October 1930, Page 8
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