HANGMAN WEEPS.
WOMEN EXECUTED. Horrifying Scenes at Deaths of Hungarian Poisoners. DRAGGED TO THE GALLOWS. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) BUDAPEST, June 18. Bursting into tears the hangman at the Szolnok Prison was compelled to drag to the gallows the unconscious bodies of Julia Czartas and Marie Czabo, two women who were condemned to death for their share in the mass poisonings of lovers and husbands in Hungary last year. Czabo gave birth to a child while in prison. She fainted at the eight of the gallows and did not hear the final sentence. Czartas, protesting her innocence, fighting madly with the warders and shrieking for mercy, was carried to the gallowe, where a screen hid the body of Czabo, who had already been hanged. Czartas fainted. The spectators were horror-stricken, and the hangman, who was weeping bitterly, adjusted the noose and, while Czartas was still unconscious, completed the execution.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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