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Show "Murder" Fails as Way of Getting Divorce Berlin. Uerr Landwehr and his , wife found a brief experience of marital mari-tal felicity more than sufficient But their efTort to regain .freedom has ended disastrously. The couple live nt Premnltz, In the province of Brandenburg. The husband hus-band Is only twenty-three and the wife thirty-three. Whether this disparity of years has had anything to do with the mutual dislike that followed their marriage Is not disclosed. On one point only could they agree that separation was essential. As neither could accuse the other of actual ac-tual cruelty or Infidelity, and as neither neith-er had any desire to create the neces snry evidence, they languished chained together In despair. Then one day smoke was seen Is- suing from their bedroom window. Neighbors broke In, to And the bed ablaze and Herr Landwehr sleeping peacefully upon It. The apparently 1 unpenitent wife freely acknowledged that she had sprinkled benalne on It and then set It on fire, and wns arrested arrest-ed for the attempted murder of her husband. Now, however, she has been released and the couple are condemned again to live together. For Investigation 1 the crime revenled that the "murder" was planned with the assistance of the husband, it being hoped in this way to obtain sultlclent evidence for divorce di-vorce proceedings. |