WIFE'S REVENGE.
POURED BOILING Oil- ON SLEEPING HUSBAND. NEW YORK, -Tune I. Suspecting that her husband had been unfaithful to her, Mrs. Elizabeth Ktoraci, the mother of eight children, killed her husband with boiling oil. She confessed that she stood before :i cauldron on the kitchen stove for i>o minutes and stirred the simmering olive oil until it boiled, then carried the steaming fluid to the bedroom. There she poured it over her sleeping husband, who was burned from head tc foot, and writhed in aprony. Ho died shortly afterwards in hospital. The oldest child, Frank, aged 17. Raw the tragedy, but was too late to prrxoiii it. Before lie died Storaci Raid lii= wife had previously bopn confinorl in mii asylum for the insane.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 7
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