The Tale of How Vengeful Bertha Deprived Her Husband of Manhood and Lived Happily Ever After (5 Photos)

The photo of the lady is clearly from the police station. Once she got there it's definitely not for beautiful eyes. But why then does the detainee look so self-satisfied, as if she had done a heroic deed?





The story began on an ordinary spring night in 1907 in California, in city of San Jose. Spouses Berta and Frank have already settled down and lazily exchanged phrases before going to bed. Their marriage was impossible call it a reference, there was no special love between husband and wife. But also the most he was not terrible in the world either.



Bertha

Frank Boronda never caught the moment when the missus suddenly had a blade in his hands. A moment - she deprives her husband of himself dear - cuts off his penis. Then he calmly dresses, not even looking in the direction of the bleeding man, and slowly withdraws into sunset on the big Apparently, in order to quickly get into a happy light future in San Jose.

The man was not a timid ten, not without reason he worked as a captain fire department. Overcoming the pain, he managed to crawl across the road, where the same part was located. The guys on duty gave the chief the first help, was taken to the hospital, where Frank was helped. He survived. But is this life for a man, with the knowledge that he is no longer a man?

The spouse was taken warm almost immediately. Bertha was sticking out railway station, dressed in a man's suit, and looked very ridiculous and very obvious. However, judging by the photo, she was so happy as if at least she saved the world.

Why did her husband piss her off so much that the woman resolved the conflict in such a radical way?

I must say that Boronda was a Mexican. And they called him to the reality of Mario Narcisso. And for simplicity, the name was changed as often occurs in foreign cultures. The man was 43 at the time of the tragedy. years, and his German wife Berta (nee Zettle) was 12 years old younger.

For that period, the age of 43 was already more than respectable. But hot Mexican blood so seethed in Mario that he did not bypass not a single more or less attractive woman in the city. Who regularly discussed the adventures of the captain. Before Berta, the Mexican already was married. And he brought his first wife with his endless male breeding to suicide attempts. Plus, he was tyrannical in relationships. inclinations. Not the most, shall we say, favorable cocktail of characteristics for family life.



However, the main factor due to which Berta decided on castration, not even constant infidelity of her husband began. And the scams elections in which Frank actively participated.

In general, he led a rich political and social life: engaged in forged ballots, rigged results, during breaks actively consoled widows and married women whose husbands for various reasons were absent from the city.

But no matter how the rope twists, there will be a tip. And commander the fire department relaxed, messed up and realized that I had to do my feet, when his accomplices began to be arrested one by one. ski guy pricked up to relatives in Mexico. Blessed, of course, do not take with you planned. She was to stay in San Jose and deal with consequences of his active political activity.



But Berta, although a phlegmatic German, decided to demonstrate their vision of the picture of the world. And with a slight movement of the hand ... And, in fact, did she deprive the unfaithful schemer of his "jade wand"? The fact, that all the local newspapers trumpeted that the penis of the unfortunate, floating in jar of formaldehyde, even used in court as a material proof. History has gone to the people, overgrown with a mass of dubious details and turned into an urban legend.

It was already contemporaries who thought: could Boronda survive with such wound? Cross the road, reschedule the trip to the hospital and don't die from infections with a level of early-century medicine that left something to be desired the best? Unlikely. More like the truth that it was just about deep cut. The question remains open.



Bertha was given a "five". But for good behavior released through two years. Frank later remarried a girl, Josie, who was significantly younger than the spouse: the age difference was more than 30 years.

Berta also tried to start a new family with a widower named Alexander Patterson. But the marriage soon fell apart for unknown reasons.

Frank passed away in 1940. Berta passed away after 10 years. After the trial, the paths of the former spouses no longer crossed. Berta became a kind of symbol of the struggle against patriarchy. And lovers of strange collections have long been chasing a special exhibit - cut off Mario's penis, of which there are already more than 5 pieces in different collections. And all are real, of course.