Slaying story checked

Associated Press · February 11, 1956

Police inspector Thomas Cochill said his homicide department was checking to story of Mrs. Victoria Hermiz Haisha (right) that her secret lover, Maurice Hamilton, 20, son of a Baghdad merchant, killed her husband with a knife here yesterday. Hamilton denied the charges. Her husband with a knife here yesterday. Hamilton denied the charges. Her husband, Aziz Hermiz Haisha, 38, a grocery employee, was stabbed to death in the couple's flat and Mrs. Haisha was found on the floor, tied to a table.