SHOT HER HUSBAND
ACTRESS PLEADS JUSTIFICATION (Reuter). PARIS, July 28. The right to kill was the defence of Stanislawa Uminska, a Polish actress charged with shooting her husband who was slowly dying from cancer of the Umin.sk a gave her evidence sobbingly, stretching out her arms pleadingly to ihe Magistrate. “I loved him,’’ she said. “I had to kill him to end his sufferings, which wore terrible Io see. He continually pleaded with mo to kill him, and gave me a revolver. He said a bullet in the mouth would bring instant death. I refused, but when I saw the tortures increasing, without hope of recovery, I shot him, when ho was sleeping.” LIVED BY MURDERS. A VIENNA COUPLE. VIENNA, July 28. A shoemaker and his wife have confessed to ihe murder of 51 prospective emigrants. Tho wife enticed the victims home, and drugged their wine. The couple lived for two years on the proceeds of th.* crimes.
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Grey River Argus, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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