AN AMAZING CRIME
FATHER HANGED DOMESTIC DISPUTE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) BUDAPEST, Sept. 18. Declaring that he had worked long enough, and that his family was old enough to fend for themselves, a grocer named Szabo, in the village of Kecskemet, informed them that he was selling his business and retiring. The family held a council of war, and the youngest daughter, a prize debater, harangued him on his family responsibilities. Szabo retorted that his Avife had become a shrew and the children ungrateful. He had given them the best years of his life. The family thereupon condemned him to death and hanged him to a beam in the shop, removing a chair from under him. The prospective buyer of the business was next morning confronted with the dead body. When the police arrived, the family held that their act was justified.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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143AN AMAZING CRIME Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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