A GREEK BLUEBEARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 9

A GREEK BLUEBEARD

ARRESTED AT WEDDING. CHARGED WITH SEVEN MURDERS. ‘ (United Press Association.) (By Electrla Telegraph—Copyright.) ’; ATHENS, October 1. The miraculous escape of Bluebeard's eighth wife, as told in the fairy tale, was re-enacted-in real life. A man nahicd Kulaxides . was arrested on the eve of his eighth wedding, charged with the murder of seven wives. The police entered the house at' the height of the merrymaking. The prospective bride, a rich widow, who made over her property to Kulaxides, was so distracted that : she became insane and was sent to an asylum. The fate of sis of the women has not been solved. The body of the seventh has been discovered in a ravine in Macedonia, terribly disfigured. long immunity enjoyed by Kulaxides was the result of his changing his name and domicile! A detective who was investigating the death of the seventh, wife, saw the prisoner shortly before the tragedy and recognised him again in Athens, and he then discovered, that before the disappearance of each wife Kulaxides journeyed abroad with his wife, and returned alone.