WIFE STRANGLED
TERRIFIED HUSBAND DOMESTIC TRAGEDY CAUSED BY ANONYMOUS LETTERS. SURRENDER TO POLICE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 4. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, February 3. A strange domestic tragedy is reported. Jean Estenave, a respectable man who has been married for 18 years, walked into a police station, and said: “I have strangled my wife.” Inquiries show that all went well for 16 years, until his wife received anonymous letters stating her husband was false to her. She threatened to kill him, and many disputes followed. In December his wife received a second letter, by which the domestic trouble was intensified. The wife would not allow her husband to sleep, scratching hie face to keep him awake, and make him answer questions. When a third letter was received on Wednesday tne wife said she would avenge herself with vitriol. In a sudden impulse of fear and anger the husband seized her by the throat and strangled her. He then dressed himself in his best clothes and went to the police.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 6
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174WIFE STRANGLED New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 6
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