LEAPS FROM HIS COFFIN.
A FAITHLESS WIFE.
"MONSTROUS HUSBAND DEAD."
By Cable. — Ttesx Association. — Copyright. (Received April 11, 9..'50 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, April 10.
Karl Petersen, a wealthy merchant, who had only been married for a year, became suspicious of his wife, and arranged with a doctor and a solicitor for a mock death.
The husband was a coffin and his will was read, leaving all his
property to his wife. Directly the doctor and solicitor de
parted from the house, the wife telephoned to her lover the splendid news that her "monstrous husband was dead." Her lover arrived quickly and kissed hor, but Petersen suddenly leaped out of Ihe coffin.
The wife fainted and her lover (led Petersen lias been granted a divorce
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 55, 11 April 1914, Page 9
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123LEAPS FROM HIS COFFIN. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 55, 11 April 1914, Page 9
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