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Arrest of a woman carrying a gun, 1911
Daughter of Haji Muhammad Ibrahim from Baghdad, an Ottoman national, divorced her husband, Sayyid Hasan from Ganjah. Her brother-in-laws were plotting to kill her, therefore she carried a gun. She was arrested when she went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a legal issue.
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Arrest of ‘Aziz Aqa for carrying a gun, 1911
‘Aziz Aqa, a female entertainer, purchased a six-shooter carrier after the brothers of her divorced husband, Sayyid Hasan from Ganjah, had threatened to kill her. She was arrested for carrying the gun on her way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Battering a woman, 1911
The head of police has beaten a woman after her husband's complaint that she took away his household furnishings after their divorce.
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Filicide, 1910
Sadiq, with the help of the sister of his first wife, killed his son from his second wife who had died a while after she was divorced, by throwing him in a well; the sister-in-law confessed and was sentenced to death by being thrown from a high location
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Murder of three-year-old daughter, 1911
A man, who has two wives, kills his own daughter from his first wife, so that he could divorce her mother.
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Woman's murder, 1911
The body of the daughter of Haji Mulla Bashi from Taliqan was found by police. Her husband, Aqa Mirza Ibrahim from Taliqan, is arrested for her murder. He had been suspicious of his wife's relationship with his nephew, Hamid Allah, and asked her father to settle the mahr and agree to divorce. The second piece of news from a few days later is about Hamid Allah's arrest.
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Woman's suicide attempt, 1911
About Sakinah Khanum asking for a divorce, her husband's refusal, and her reaction of eating opium