VICTIM OF HER DAUGHTER'S LOVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14109, 10 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

VICTIM OF HER DAUGHTER'S LOVE.

RICH HUNGARIAN MURDERED IN

HER OWN GARDEN. A mystkriotjs murder which has been extensively discussed in Hungary for several weeks has taken a sensational turn. . A month ago at Szabadka Mine. Marie Hawerda, a rich widow, was found shot in her garden, and the police were unable to prove the guilt of any of the numerous persons arrested in connection with the affair. Mime..Hawerda left over £100,000 to her only daughter, Alexandrine Jarmaczy, an extremely beautiful woman who lived in Buda Pesth in great style, though - her mother, who hated her extravagance, had long ceased to give her money.

It has only now become known that Alexandrine was suspected by the police, who ascertained that she had been hard pressed by her creditors. Nothing could be proved against her, as she was in Buda

Pesth at the time of the murder. The police, however, shadowed all Alexandrine's admirers, and circulated their portraits in Szabadka and neighbourhood. At last they discovered that two of the men were seen by a railway official at the station near Szabadka on the day of the murder. These, two men were arrested, but declared that their identification was a mistake. The police, however, kept them in custody, and one of them, Aladar Janossy, made the startling confession that Alexandrine, of whom they were both passionately fond, had long besought them to murder her mother, so that she could get her money, until they had complied- They drew lots, and it fell to Janossy to commit the crime. He.sneaked into Mme. Hawerda's garden and shot the old lady. When Alexandrine heard of Janossy's confession she declared that it was true, adding that a certain Leopold Klein, her chief creditor, had so often suggested the idea of getting rid of her mother that she finally acted on his advice. Klein, who is the director of a small banking institute,, was arrested.