EXECUTION HORROR
POISONERS FAINT AT GALLOWS A DREADFUL SCENE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BUDAPEST, Juno 13. (Received June 19, at 11.45 a.m.) Bursting into tears, the hangman of Szoiinok Prison was compelled to drag to tho gallows the unconscious bodies of Julia Czartas and Mario Czabo. Czabo bore a child while in prison, and fainted' at the sight of the gallows. Sho did not hear the final sentence.
Czartas protesting her innocence, madly fighting the warders, and shrieking for mercy, was carried to tho gallows, where a screen hid the body of Czabo, who bad already been hanged. Czartas fainted, the spectators were horror-stricken, and tho hangman, weeping bitterly, adjusted tbo noose, and while Czartas was still unconscious, completed tho execution. [The two women were convicted of wholesale poisoning.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20823, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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128EXECUTION HORROR Evening Star, Issue 20823, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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