AMAZING MUNGER.
WITCHCRAFT EMPLOYED FAILURE OF THE SCHEME. CONFESSION BY WIFE. !%•( By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Sept. 16, 9.10 a.m. Paris, Sept. 15. An extraordinary murder, accompanied by sorcery, was revealed in the Metz courts, where a wife and her butcher lover were charged with murdering a carter after efforts to kill him by witchcraft had failed. The. wife admits that, acting on the advice of a sorceress, she suspended sheep’s lunge in the room and draped them with black, the lungs representing the husband’s heart. As the clock struck midnight she thrust twelve needles into the lungs. When the twelfth was driven in, which was to kill the man, she went to the carters bedroom and was astonished to find him. unharmed. Then she and her butcher lover decided to murder him. The sorceress was arrested, but was released after the wife’s confession.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 5
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144AMAZING MUNGER. Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 5
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