FIVE LADIES HANGED.
! EXECUTED IN VIENNA. , ' Aocobdino to report* which have reached I Zurich, five Polish ladies of noble birth, 1 who moved in the most artistocratic circle* M lof Austrian society, were arrested in«s ' Vienna on charges of espionage in th» interest of Russia. They were tried, in* mediately convicted, and sentenced to b« be hanged next dav at the Vienna arsenalThe judge presiding at the trial was obliged to attend to see the sentence car- ; .V' ried out. The execution proved J such » harrowing spectacle that he entirely ■col- . lapsed and lost his reason. He has »n»ca. been removed to an aaylum for. the ii**s* ££ at £teinhof 4 a suburb of Vienna, - ??S?k*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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