HUNGARIAN COURT SENSATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18489, 10 February 1930, Page 9

HUNGARIAN COURT SENSATION.

Poison Drama Unfolded. WOMAN'S AMAZING CRIME. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BUDAPEST, February 7. What is regarded as probably the worst of the Hungarian poison dramas, is being unfolded. Maria Varga is charged with poisoxiing her husbapd and also her lover, Michael Ambros. The story goes that the husband was Hungary’s first soldier blinded in the war, the victim of a shellburst on the Russian front. The wife, disgusted at being burdened, held a reception and called in “Widowmaker, Auntie Susie.” The husband died in agony, after a second dose of arsenic. Stories are circulated in the village how the ghost of the blinded soldier was seen tapping a stick round the churchyard, turning his sightless sockets towards the farm. The widow declared the house was haunted, and took in Ambros, who died in similar agony. Maria’s defence was that she believed the Widowmaker’s medicine harmless. CONDEMNED WOMAN’S CHARGE. AUSTRIAN COURT HORRIFIED. (United Press Association—By Electri* 1 elegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 9, 5.5 p.m.) VIENNA, February 8. In a court filled with horrified listeners, Fran Fardos, who was recently condemned to death turned on a former friend Szolnok Maria Varga, and charged her with murdering her war blinded husband, her lover and the latter’s grandfather. So that she may not have to go to the gallows alone. Fran Kardos declared that she heard Varga offer scwt of wheat to a midwife named Aunt Suzanne, to kill her busband Kardos and added that he died in horrible agony. She had killed her own husband and son and therefore knew how they died. Her desire for vengeance failed, as Varga escaped her death sentence, but is to serve hard labour for life.