Terrible Crimes in Russia.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1892, Page 3 (Supplement)

Terrible Crimes in Russia.

The present year (says bhe correspondent of tho'Chronicle') will long be engraven on the memory of the inhabitants of Russia, not only on account of bhe famine, but also on account of the many horrible crimes that are being committed in all parts of the empire by tho famished and povertystricken peasantry. Only last week information was received from Chelabinsk, on the Siberian westorn frontier, thab a young peasanb, not yet of age, had murdered five men in their sleep, for tbe paltry sum of four roubles (8s). A still more horrible crime has jusb been committed near Mjechoff, in Russian Poland, by three peasants, who lately enticed a flhoemakter named Levanoffsky into a forest and there murdered him, believing that he carried a large sum of money about his person. The murderers, in order to escape detection, then cut the body to pieces nnd endeavoured to burn the remains on an immense fire. These attempts to hide thencrime, however, only led to its more speedy discovery; for a hungry workman, whilst walking through the forest, found ono of the pieces of half-roasted flosh and brought, it home to'bis fellow-workmen, who devoured ib with yreat relish, believing that it was game.or horse-flesh. Tho workman who had broughbthis sbrange meal to his friends, on being accused of having stolon ib, immediately offered to show them where he .had'found-the meat. Arrived at the spObf bho workmen then discovered, to their horror, thab they had been dining off the roasted and mutilated body of the unlor-