DIGGING UP HIS WIFE

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 27

DIGGING UP HIS WIFE

A BUDAPEST SCENE. A strange scene thrilled the crowd in ona ot the picturesque corners of old Budapest when 12 policemen arrive* with a manacled prisoner and t>vo workmen carrying spades. Stephan Forro, the prisoner, after belnj furnished with more wine than was good for him, had confessed to the detectives that he had killed his wife in n jealous rage, and had buried her at the edge of the square one night. He indicated the spot and watched tne workmen dig, but they were slow, and Forro snatched the spade from oue of them and began digging energetically"Ah! I've fonnd the place:" he exclaimed at last, and stooped to pick Dp an object. The spectators nearly broke the cordon to see what he held In his manacled hand. It was a potato woicb the murderer ha« laid on the woman's body, "to mark tfie spot." he said, and it had eprontod. The body was found in a sack. When the police asked if he had cut up the t>oi]y I he man answered indignantly, "Certainly not: i buried her decently in the proper way."