A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
, MURDER AND SUICIDE. HUSBAND’S FRENZIED ACT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright GENEVA, Mav 24. Petersen, a wealthy Danish jeweller, saw his wife at a ball dancing with a handsome youth. Petersen took her home, and in a frenzy of jealousy hanged her in her hall frock. Before setting the room on fire he set her frock alight. Afterwards he wrote a letter of justification for the deed and sent it to the police. He then hanged himself in the bedroom. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18872, 26 May 1923, Page 7
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85A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 18872, 26 May 1923, Page 7
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