HUSBAND KILLED
SORCERY AND SAVAGERY
(Australian and N X Z. Cable Association.)
PARIS, September 16. An extraordinary murder, accompanied by sorcery, has been revealed at the Metz Courts, where a wife and a butchr (her lover) were charged with murdering the carter. After efforts to kill him by witchcraft had failed, the wife admits that, acting on the advice of a sorceress, she suspended a sheep’s lungs in a room draped with black, the lungs representing her husband’s heart. As the clock struck midnight, she thrust twelve needles into the lungs. When the twelfth had been driven in, which was to kill, the man went to Carter’s bedroom, but was astonished to find him unharmed. She and her butcher lover decided to murder him. The sorceress was arrested, but was released after the wife’s confession.
A COUNT MURDERED.
PARIS, September 16.
The body of Compte De Kermon, in Brittany was exhumed. An autopsy revealed two bullets', and that the shooting was not accidental, but the result of a crime.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1924, Page 2
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