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Show Uses Meat Chopper on Mate Because of a Love Affair SHANGHAI. Love does strange things to people and because of this mystic power a Chinese laborer was in a critical condition after being hacked six times by his wife with a meat chopper "because she loved him." The 23-year-old unnamed victim, a petroleum installation worker, became be-came overjoyed when his wife arrived ar-rived from Hupeh for a visit. But she brought sad news. Before she left Hupeh, an astrologer astrolo-ger told her that her husband would be the cause of her death and cause the death of six subsequent wives. The only remedy for this alleged Bluebeard situation, according to the mystic, would be to inflict 100 blowi on her husband's body with the back of a meat chopper. Accordingly, the couple crept into the fields and concealed themselves under a neighbor's cucumber scaffold scaf-fold at the recommendation of the j soothsayer. The "Lady Macbeth" wife told po- lice later at the hospital that the operation proceeded as planned un- I I til the wrong end of the chopper cams in contact with the superstitious supersti-tious husband's body. The ever loving wife attributed the accident to sleepiness. Skepti- cal police, however, booked her on charges of attempted murder. |