Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1912 — KILLS WIFE IN PITT; FREED [ARTICLE]

KILLS WIFE IN PITT; FREED

Austrian Jury Acquits Man Who Shot Consumptive Spouse to End Her Sufferings. e Vienna.—Public opinion In Austria. Is divided over the verdict at Loeben in the case of a Viennese clerk named Haas, who killed his consumptive wife; to end her continued sufferings. Hasst shot his wife In * railway carriagepassing through a tunnel, and then attempted suicide. The wife died immediately, but the husband was only slightly hurt The jury acquitted him of murder, but found Haas guilty of carrying a revolver without a license. He was fined $1.75, and oa pay men} was released.