SORDID AUSTRIAN CRIME.
WOMAN STRANGLED AT TEA. PLOT TO OBTAIN PROPERTY. United Service. LONDON. Aug. IcO. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that the diabolical murder of a woman known as the "Merry Widow of Graz " has been revealed by the arrest of five people, including a wealthy timber merchant named Steiner.
The "Merry Widow" was separated from her husband, and traded privately in furs and jewellery. She was invited to tea at Steiner's flat, where cord was thrown round her neck and she was strangled. Her body was cut up, and the mummified head, hands, feet, and trunk were found in different parcels. The* murder was the result ..of a plot to enable the participants to divide the property in her flat. A previous attempt failed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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129SORDID AUSTRIAN CRIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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