TO END HIS PAIN.
SHOT BY FIANCEE*. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received July 18, 9.15 a.m. PARIS, July 17. Mdlee. Unicuska Assumed that, she had a right to kill her fiance© in in hospital at Ville-juif because he was suffering terrible agony from incurable cancer. Jean Zoznowski, Polish novelist, came to Paris for surgical treatment with Mdlle. Unicuska. During the second operation she gave her own blood to help his recovery. The sacrifice, however, was useless, and the sick man besought the doctors to put him out of his misery. After the. girl saw her lover yesterday she tearfully pleaded'with the doctors to end his agony, but the doctors refused. She returned to the hospital, leant over Zoznowski, kissed him, then twice shot him in the head point blank, and fell fainting beside the bed. Zoznowski died without regaining consciousness. The girl is now held under open arrest at the hos-pital.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 July 1924, Page 9
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