EXECUTION OF A WOMAN

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1931, Page 7

EXECUTION OF A WOMAN

murderer of relatives POISONINGS IN HUNGARY Dramatic confession GUILTY OF MANY CRIMES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Vienna, Jan. 10. There was a dramatic scene at th<_ public execution of Marie Kardnos, w'ho was found guilty of many poisonings. The prison was besieged by the mob from dawn. Ladders were erected against the prison wall and men and women fought for positions. The windows and roofs of surrounding houses were black with onlookers. The condemned woman spent the final night making her will. When she was awakened at six o’clock in the morning Stephen Todor, a young lover for whom she killed a husband and son, was allowed to enter her cell. The warders had to carry the woman to the scaffold. When the platform fell Todor, who remained to the end, ran screaming through the courtyard into the street. The woman made a remarkable con-, fession: “I killed my son Sandor. After I had. given him poison I remembered what a remarkable voice he had and I asked him to sing my favourite song. He san o- beautifully, until -he suddenly broke off, gripped both hands to his side and uttered a despairing cry of ’Mother,’ and lay still. I laid him on the bed, pupt' bn a mourning dress, and went out.”