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Suspicious death of a woman
A document regarding the suspicious death of a woman in Kanjur village and her husband's arrest
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Khadijah's self-immolation, 1911
Also, news about the arrest of Salma and Nabat for burglary
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Death by eating opium, 1909
Quarreling between a husband and wife which ended with the wife's suicide. Then, her mother claimed her daughter's mahr from the husband.
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Khvurshid Khanum's petitions, 1908
Petitions by Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza, from Barfurush, to Mukhbir al-Saltanah, Minister of Justice, explaining how following her parents death, when she was three years old, her uncle, ‘Abbasquli Khan, seeking her inheritance of more than fifty thousand tumans worth of property, took her in. After ten years, he married her off to his grandson, son of I‘timad Divan, despite her discontent. I‘timad Divan never paid her her share of inheritance with the excuse that she was his son's wife. Khvurshid Khanum wants a divorce and is willing to waive her mahr, which is more than ten...