"MAY GOD KILL ME”
ACCTSED MAN FALLS DEAD. CEREBRAL AGITATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Aaeociatlon. (Received Mav 17 8.40 p.in.) , GENEVA, May 16. ’ Charged with poisoning his wife in order to obtain her insurance money, a man named Strumer ended a long speech in his own defence with the words: 'Mav God Almighty kill me if I am guilty.” Then he fell senseless in the dock and died. A doctor attributed death to cerebral agitation. The judge remarked: “Accused has gone betore a better and higher judge.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11522, 18 May 1923, Page 8
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