GRUESOME STORY

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1925, Page 5

GRUESOME STORY

JEWELS IX A GBAVF. LONDON, April 20. lib* Daily Chronicle’s Vienna correspondent tells a gruesome story of a widower requesting permission to exhume his wife, who had been dead ten years, on the ground that tho grave had fallen into neglect, and he wished to place the body . ; n beautiful surround ings, more worthy of the many years of their happy married life. The authorities granted the demand, hut the widower's satisfaction was so excessive that the Magistrate ordered him to bo watched. The police found that the widower, who was a rich Hungarian, had given hi-s wife expensive jewels, which were buried with her at. thp wife’s request. The price of tho jewels had greatly advanced since her death, and the widower hoped to .e--cover the jewels to pay his debts. The authorities have withdrawn the )>e-rmit, and are now prosecuting the widower.