WOMEN POISONERS
PAY THE PENALTY. (Received Friday, 11.45 a.m.) BUDAPEST, Thursday. Bursting into tears the hangman of the .Szoiinok prison was compelled to drag to the gallows the unconscious bodies of Julia Czartas and Marie Czabo, who were condemned to death for wholesale poisonings. Czabo bore a 'Child while in prison, and fainted, at the sight of the gallows. She did not hear the final sentence. Czartas protested her innocence and madly fought the warders, shrieking for mercy.' She- was carried to the gallows, where a screen hid the body of Czabo, who had already been hanged. Czartas fainted. The spectators were horror stricken, and the hangman weeping bitterly adjusted the no'ose and, while Czartas wasi still unconscious, completed the execution.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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