JEALOUS HUSBAND’S CRIME
HANGS HIS WIFE. GENEVA, May 24. Petersen, a wealthy Danish jeweller, saw his wife at a ball dancing with a handsome youth. He took her home in a frenzy jealousy, and hanged her in her ball frock before the sitting room fire, then set the frock alight, and wrote, “Justification for the deed.” He sent the note to the police before hanging himself in the bedroom.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18790, 26 May 1923, Page 5
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69JEALOUS HUSBAND’S CRIME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18790, 26 May 1923, Page 5
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