A SENSATIONAL CASE.
MURDER AND ROBBERY. A MONK'S"^NFESSION. '"" ST. PETERSBURG, February 28.' In October, 1910, the Austrian police arrested a monk named Macoch on the charge of murdering his cousin and. eloping with the widow. He was also charged with committing the great jewel robbery at Czenstochowa, Poland, in October, 1908. The trial is now proceeding at ■ Petrikoff," and there are a hundred witnesses. The chief prisoner is Father Damazy Macochy whom, after his .arrest, the Pope excommunicated. Macoch confessed that he murdered his cousin, Vaclar Macoch, through v/hom he had sold the jewels. Fearing that his; cousin: would divulge the plot;; the. prisoner murdered him, and the body was sewn inside a sofa, which was subsequently found in the river.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8313, 29 February 1912, Page 5
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121A SENSATIONAL CASE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8313, 29 February 1912, Page 5
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