VICTIM OF LOVE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 May 1927, Page 7

VICTIM OF LOVE.

MADMAN’S WAX DOLL. STRANGE HUNGARIAN STORY. The death is just reported .in Budapest. of Michael Kallosy, known for many years tliiougbout Austria and Hungary as “the madman who loved the wax doll.”

Kallosy, a member of- an aristocratic Hungarian family, fell madly in love with a beautilul Jewish girl and proposed marriage. Her parents however, refused tlieir consent on Die ground that Kallosy was a Christian, and .shortly afterwards the Young Jewess man led another man of her own religion.

The wrecking of his dream., turned Kallosy ,s brain. He rented a flat in a house facing that in which his ■last love lived with her husband, and every hour of the day he watched her window from his. own.

Din; day a number of packing cases arrived from Paris for Kallosy. who tor weeks locked himself in his room ami would not allow even his house-keeper to- enter.

Finally the house-keeper, fearing for her master’s .safety’ looked through the keyhole and saw him talking to the object of his dreams — tiie woman who lived opposite. She knocked at the door and was admit-' ted by Kallosy, only to find that the woman had disappeared. It wa,s some time before the police ascertained the'truth, which was that Kallosy, by sending a. detailed description and a number of photographs of the- Jewess, to a Parisian firm of wax model manufacturers, had a life-like model ol her made. He dressed the wax mannequin in clothing like that, which front his window he had seen her wearing. Y\ hen the object of Ibis love became a mother, the unfortunate man had a wax doll made, and this he placed in the mannequin’s arms. .Tire police eventually persuaded M. Kallosy to enter an. asylum with hi.s two wax models, and it was in that institution that lie has just died.