VIRILE “CORPSE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1931, Page 8

VIRILE “CORPSE”

WIFE AND LOVER THRASHED. A woman who lives at Rydultau, in Polish Upper Silesia, and who, it is alleged, plotted to poison lier liiisband; was - taken to the hospitaJ, as the result of a severe beating, after she had prematurely rejoiced over the sup? posed success of her diabolical attempt. She is stated to have, sought to buy some arsenic from a lodai chemist, who, suspicious, of her intentions, supplied' her with a harmless

powder and warned her husband'. The husband accordingly watched her mix the “poison” in his food : at their evening meal and ate it without demur. Then he was apparently taken suddenly ill, and “expired?’ after a histrionic display of suffering. No sooner were his eyes closed than the'' widow (as the wife now deemed 1 her-e self) summoned her lover, and* liotfc ’ began to make merry over the sue- / cess of their plot. But, when they decided to tie a rope round the neck of the “dead” man to simulate suicide, the “corpse” thought “it time to intervene. He accordingly arose, and after mercilessly thrashing his terrified' rival, whom he flung out of the House, set about his wife and dealt with her sq? effectively that she had to be to hospital. ' .