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Show KILLS WIFE IN PITY; FREED Austrian Jury Acquits Man Who Shot Consumptive Spouse to End Her Sufferings. 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. Haas shot his wife in a railway carriage passing through a tunnel, and then attempted suicide. The wife died immediately, im-mediately, 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 on payment was released. |