"AMAZON" ADMITS SLAYINGOf course you have to look at this within the confines of the day - Amazon was not intended in anyway shape or form as a compliment. And it's possible that a 52 year old guy marrying a 21 year old woman was not as odd as it might be today.
NAPJERVILLE. Ill., July 8—Laura Weaver, 21, described by police as possessing Amazonian strength, had confessed today she strangled her common-law husband, Wilbur Kitselman, 52, and then burned his body near Annawan, III.
“Well, I've been in the city for 30 years and I've never once regretted being a nasty, greedy, cold-hearted, avaricious money-grubber... er, Conservative!” - Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 2, Episode 11, How Not To Be Seen
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
News From the Past - July 8, 1929
Short one today, about an "Amazon." This is from the Chester Times out of Chester, Pennsylvania.
They weren't married. "Common-law husband" means they were living together.
ReplyDeleteD'oh. You are right. Still that doesn't make the story any less salacious.
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