THREE TIMES FAILED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 8

THREE TIMES FAILED.

HUNGARIAN GIRL'S BROKEN

HEART.

DETERMINED ATTEMPTS ON LIFE.

If a cat has nine lives, the peasant girls of the Theiss Valley, which recently became notorious through the mass {joisoning cases, would seem to have at. east three, or four if surviving a- broken heart be reckoned on.

Elizabeth Nagykovacs, a pretty peasant girl, decided that her broken heart would permit her to live no longer. She hanged herself in the attic of her father's cottage,. but the drumming of her heels 011 the wall attracted notice and she was cut down.

In the afternoon she was still of the same mind, and, concealing herself in the garden, opened an artery in her wrist, with a kitchen knife. She received first aid and was taken to a hospital. Restored to her parents the same night, she eluded them and flung herself in the River Theiss, but her luck was still out—or in, according to the point of view—and she was fished out with a boat hook. Really depressed at the failure of her third attemot at suicide in twenty-four hours, she had to be taken to a hospital suffering from nervous collapse. 0