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A Novel attempt to kill a husband

--At New Brooklyn, N Y, the wife of a German named Fry attempted to kill him by pouring scalding hot coffee down his throat while he was asleep. He was badly scalded, but not fatally. When the police went to the house to arrest the woman, they found that she had decamped.

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