PUBLIC EXECUTION
TURKISH WOMAN HANGED. (United Press Assn. —By Telegraph—Copyright.) Constantinople, December 14. For the first time in Turkish history a woman was publicly hanged at Sparta for killing another woman so as„to have her husband. She walked to the gallows and insisted on herself fixing the noose. Thousands of villagers cursed her in chorus as the signal was given for the hanging.
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Southland Times, Issue 21578, 16 December 1931, Page 5
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