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Picture No 12011990
Date 1928
Description Apology to Greek Orthodox priest alleged to have eaten wife!
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An apology in The Graphic which had, in January 1928, run a story claiming that a Greek Orthodox priest had pickled and eaten his wife after she had fallen down some stairs and broken her neck. The Graphic were later informed the story was untrue and the portrait was of a 'much-respected deacon on the Secretariat of the Orthodox Archbishop of Athens'. See picture number for the original story. The Graphic claimed they had received, "totally incorrect information with the accompanying picture from a well-known photographic news agency." See picture number 12011978 for the original story.
Source Feature in The Graphic, 25 February 1928
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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