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GIRL KILLS FIANCE. SHOTS FIRED IN HOSPITAL, tax c-\bus—ras=ss association coraucst.} (*rsTß*Uis *jn> s.i. auia AStocurtw.} PARK, July 17. Mile. Untcuska assumed the right to kill her fiance in a hospital at ViDejuif because ho was suffering terrible agony from an incurable cancer. Jean Zoznowski, a Polish novelist, came to Parts with MUe. Unkuska for surgical treatment. During the second operation she gave her own blood to help his recovery. Tho sacrifice, howover, was useless, and the sick man be* sought tho doctors to put him oat of misery. After the girl saw her lover yesterday, sho tearfully pleaded with the doctors to end Sis agony, but the doetors refused. She then returned to the hospital, leant over Zoznowski, kissed him, and then twice shot him in tha head, point-blank, and fell fainting besido the bed. Zoznowski died without regaining consciousness. Tho girl is now held under open arrest at the hospital.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18129, 19 July 1924, Page 13
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155TO END AGONY. Press, Volume LX, Issue 18129, 19 July 1924, Page 13
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