A TRAGEDY OF LOVE
POLISH WOXATS SACRIFICE. ENDED STANCE’S SUFFERING. fVess Association—Copyright Australian and NZ. CSble Association (Received 9.15 a.m.) Paris, July 17. Madmoiselle Unicuska assumed the right to kill her fiance in the hos- • 1 at Villejuif because he war suffering terrible agony from incurable cancer. Jean Zoznowski, a Polish novelist, came to Paris for surgical treatment with Unicuska. During the second operation she gave her own blood to help his recovery. The sacrifice, however, was useless, aii(j the sick man besought the doctors to put him out of his misery. After the girl saw her lover yesterday, she tearfully pleaded with the doctors to end his agony. The doctors refused. She returned to the hospital, leant over Zoznowskty (kissed him„ and then twice shot him in the' head point blank, and fell fainting beside the bed. Zoznowski died without regaining consciousness. The girl is now held under open arrest in hospital.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 18, 18 July 1924, Page 5
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