WIFE'S MONEY LUST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 12

WIFE'S MONEY LUST.

HUSBAND'S AMAZING ACT. Ferdinand Marek, 22. a young engineer and inventor, has been charged at Vienna with wilfully chopping off his right foot with an 'axe, after insuring himself against accident and disablement for nearly £40,000. The Anglo-Danubinn Lloyd, in Vienna, which effected the insurance, is contesting the claim. '< Marek was working o.n the terrace of his villa, at Moedling, near Vienna, on a S'inday morning, shaping a model with a sharp, curved axe, when his screams brought, lr's wife and others to find Irm with* his right foot hanging only by the skin. He nearly died, and spent several months in hospital. ; A police investigation was made, as a result of which' fie was formally charged with trying to defraud the insurance company, and his claim agaifist, them will be dealt with in the civil court after (be criminal charge has been dealt with.

The police statement i.s that Mnr«k was so determined In find money to Bati«fy the ambition of Irs wife, at, whatever cost to himself, that lie made false statements lo the company about lr's aije and profarainn. and that his conduct thiwho't and the (T.enernl circumstances ind : - rate that he then death from the ahocjc of self-mutilation.