POISON DRAMAS
WORST HUNGARIAN CASE “WIDOW-MAKER” CALLED IN ,'Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received February 8, 11 a.m.) BUDAPEST, Feb. 7. What is regarded as probably llie worst of the Hungarian poison dramas is being unfolded at Szolnok. Maria Varga is charged with poisoning her husband, and also her lover, Michael Ambros. The story goes that the husband was Hungary’s first soldier blinded in the war, the victim of a shellburst on the Russian front. Ilis wife, disgusted at being thus burdened, field a reception and called in the “Widowmaker, Auntie Susi.” Her husband died in agony after the second dose of poison. Stories are circulated in the village of how tho ghost of the blinded soldier has been seen tapping his stick round the churchyard and turning his sightless sockets towards the farm. The widow declared the house was 'inimted, and took in Ambros, who died in similar agony. Maria’s defence was (lint, she believed the “Widow-maker’s” medicine harmless.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 5
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