A WIDOWMAKER
HUNGARIAN TRAGEDY
(Received Bth February, 2 p.m.)
BUDAPEST, 7thj February. What is regarded; as probably the worst of the Hungarian poison dramas is being unfolded at Szolnok. Maria Varga is charged with poisoning her husband and also her lover, Michael Ambros. The story goes that her husband was Hungary's first soldier, to be blinded in the war, a victim of a shollburst on the Russian front. His wife, disgusted with being burdened with him, held a reception and coldly called in "the widowmaker Auntie Susi." The husband died in agony after the second dose of arsenic. Stories are circulated in the village of how the ghost of. a blinded soldier was seen tapping a stick round tho churchyard and turning his sightless sockets towards the farm. The widow declared the house haunted and took in Ainbros, who died in similar agony. Maria's defence was that she believed the "widowmaker V medicine was harmless.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 10
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