REFUSED A DIVORCE
/MAN MURDERS HIS WIFE. BODY OUT IN PIECES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association . / WARSAW, December 17. ■ A Polish Patrick Mahon, named Kasmrzak, justifies murdering and dis’membering his wife on the ground that he_ wanteid to show what man can be driven to if refused a divorce. Kasprzak is a well-known surgeon, whom the detectives accidentally discovered with parts of a dismembered woman in' bis travelling bog.. As his professional explanations were inconclusive. the police made inquiries and .found that his wife was massing; The marriage had been an unhappy one, and Kaspraak' had started a divorce suit; : but lost his case. " ' ■ . , He accordingly killed his wife with a hatchet, and was taking the dismem-, bered body to Warsaw for disposal; just as Mahon was doing when he was discovered. Police officers boarded the train, and examined the passengers’ (luggage for contraband, and so found ■ the; dismembered parts. There was not ' the least susincion, • of the crime. ' previously. * •' Kasprzak, at the trial pleaded not guilty, saying that the Divorce Court (Was responsible for the crime. He was sentenced to pehal servitude for life.
Patrick Mahon was-convicted'of the murder of Miss Knyme last August, having killed and dismembered her- in a lonely bungalow at Crumbles.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12016, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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