FULL TEXT: Buda Pest, December 11.– The intense land hunger of simple peasants, who will do anything to obtain a small plot on which to work from dawn to dusk, is stated to be thechief motive of a remarkable series of husband poisonings, for which the trial of sixty women in the villages of Tiszakurt and Nagyrev will begin this week. In most of the cases, after the husband mysteriously died, the widow, having inherited the land, married younger men better able to help in the tilling.
~ Blind Husband “No Use” ~
Julia Sijj, It is alleged, murdered her father, husband, two sons, two brothers, and an uncle in order to get the land. Another, Maria Szule, calmly confessed that she poisoned her war-blinded husband “because he was no use to me. I married a younger man who can help me in the fields.”
~ Poison in Coffins ~
In some instances the exhumation of the husbands’ coffins revealed jars containing arsenic concealed beneath the bodies. The accused women admitted that they bought the poison from a midwife, Marie Fazekas. The police, intending to arrest her. found that Fazekas had forestalled I them and hanged herself.
[“Husbands Poisoned - Land Hunger The Cause - Sixty Women Accused,” The Advertiser (Australia), Dec. 12, 1929, p. 19]
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For more than two dozen similar cases, dating from 1658 to 2011, see the summary list with links see: The Husband-Killing Syndicates
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For an overview of the 1929 Tiszakurt and Nagyrev case see:
Murder by Wholesale: Female Serial Killer Syndicate: Nagyrev, Hungary: 1930
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How Wives Gained Power By Mass-Murder of Husbands - Hungary 1929
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How Wives Gained Power By Mass-Murder of Husbands - Hungary 1929
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For more than two dozen similar cases, dating from 1658 to 2011, see the summary list with links see: The Husband-Killing Syndicates
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