DISGUSTED WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 9

DISGUSTED WIFE.

WAR-BLIND HUSBAND Alleged Motive of Hungary'! Worst Poison Drama. LOVER'S AGONISING DEATH. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyrighl (Received 11 a.m.) BUDAPEST, February 7. What is regarded as probably thi worst of the Hungarian poison drama is being unfolded at Szolnok. Marii Varga is charged with poisoning he: husband and also her lover Miehae Ambros. The story goes that the husband wai Hungary's first soldier blinded in th war. He was the victim of a shell burst on the Russian front. His wife, disgusted at being thus bur deried, held a reception and called in th< "widowmaker, Auntie Susi." The hus band died in agony after a second dosi of arsenic. Stories are circulated in the village o how the ghost of the blinded soldier ha: been seen tapping, his stick round thi churchyard and turning his siglitlesi sockets towards the farm. The widow declared that the house was hauntec and she took in Ambros, who died ii similar agony. Maria's defence was that she believec the widowmaker's medicine to be harm less. Marie Fazekas, a midwife, "the widow maker, Aunt Susie," seems to have beer the prime mover in supplying the dis satisfied Hungarian wives with the poisor with which to get rid of their husbands In nearly every trial of the allegec woman murderers, the accused have con fessed to obtaining poison from the mid wife. The police intended to arrest her : but they found that she had forestalled them by hanging herself.