HUNGARIAN ROMANCE.
The Budapest correspondent of the London "Express" writes that in May of this year an infantry captain named Julius Koch was accused of embesalrng municipal money. He was tried at the Balassa-Gyarmat Courts, and, in spite of protestations of innocence, degrtdea from' his rank and sentenced to two years' hard labour. The case has now had an unexpected sequel. The captain* wife came forward the other day, and confessed that it was she who had stolen the money from her husband s pocket while he was asleep. There was a fresh trial, and the ex-captain was temporarily released and called as a witness against his wife, who, with tears in her eyes, begged the judge to sentence her in order to tre&eve her conscience. She threatened unless she were punished to kill herself and her children, and she was finally given six months in the cells.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11377, 13 September 1902, Page 7
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