CONTINENTAL CRIMES AND SENSATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 50, 27 February 1909, Page 15

CONTINENTAL CRIMES AND SENSATIONS.

BO! WBO MUST KILL. ra-cSed Vienna on Sunday, Jsnu- * *ZTi Prague boy Jack the Ripper BTjft anestea. He will shortly be ** T^jW"<= <»»* of Jußtlce - near Prague, a boy. aged Jien wmefl Joseph Skala, murdered fiirls in a manner similar to that *£XSw«- One chiid of six was fjSteii *• prevlous Wc4nesdoy ' and ** .ntopsy was being carried out when "tas brought that two other children jTbeen murdered in like manner. 1 boy has already confessed. When * Ldarmes questioned Urn as to the Ms crime, he replied: "I do not 9 myself I hare often such attacks, 5£ i *«* see wood flow - Thorefore i IL killed many rabbits, ducks, and other oLitle creatures. When the desire for bl?0 d comes I must kill." TPnKISH PRINCE'S DOVE STORY. m,. news that Prince Lontfoullah, M phew of the Sultan of Turkey, had riowd from Constantinople with a beautifol Greek girl, turns out to be only partly prince is now in Brussels, and to a -Lloyd's News- representative he said that tie affair was purely private, there was no ,nesHon of kidnapping, and it had nothing t0 do with polities. <S "I have come here," he said, "with a ymmggirlwhomlloYe. She is of age, and I ,rill marry her, as everybody knows in Conitantlnople. And the report telegraphed is piiliclons. Besides, we did not leave Constantinople to S ether. I left the Turkish cjpiul five days before she did, nnd I met her sad her mother and brother In Vienna, whence we have all travelled here. We haTe given our real names at tDO hotel, and tre not biding. The whole affair is very jomantlc, but not as romantic as the newspjpere think." Ihe prince will make a circular tour in Europe, and will go from Brussels to Louion. SHOCKING AFFAIR IN FRANCE. A murder of a peculiarly brutal character has been committed at Mandray, a little village mainly inhabited by woodcutters, on the Franco-German frontier. According to a telegram from Salne I>ie, published in the newspapers, a woodcutter, biown In the district as a habitual drunkard, returned home after a drinking bout, compelled his wife to divest herself of her clothing, and then turned her naked out of ioore. where she had to pass the night in a temperature of 5 degrees Fahr. In the morning the mother-in-law induced the man to let his wife In, but no sooner was lie alone than he fell upon the unfortunate woman, kicking and biting her, and cutting pieces of her flesh with a knife. Finally after torturing his victim for twenty-four hours, the man put an end to her sufferings by driving- a wedge, used for splitting wood, Into her skull. The murderer next cat OS his cat's head with an axe, but in so doing he accidentally amputated two of Jls own fingers, and when the house was enterei by the authorities, he was found lying in an almost comatose condition by tie side of the mutilated corpse of hie irife. Tie man subsequently recovered sufficiently to answer questions put to him, end he is now in prison at Same Die. VISIONS AT THE VATICAN. Remarkable stories have been current tare this week concerning an alleged miroculn> Happening at the Vatican on Ch-rist-tas night The newspaper "Italia" states fiitiMiit the Pope was praying In hie printe oratory the Virgin Mary appeared to i&a in a vision and spoke to him. H* in the ante-room heard voices, and Us Holiness, very pale, then emerged and tabued Cardinal Merry del Val to his •He, to whom he described the apparition, HJing that he had received notification «f approval of his attitude towards France udof lls whole work as Pontiff. It shonld at once be stated that tie ttory was contradicted the day after it tppesred, by the official "Corrlspondenza Boaana," but the denial has not satisfied « Etteaced the public, who speak of other rklons which the Pose is reported to Juve had. v onr correspondent, with a view to sifting tte mysterious affair, visited the Vatican «nd qnestloned Mgr Boudouresque, one of tie Papal secretaries, who made the followins statement:— "Not only is the story correct, but I can ««nre' yon that we are gathering proof ttat Pins X. has performed several miracles. His Holiness does not wish the matter to M spoken of, but It Is already known to Kveral persons." — "Central News." FATAL THEATRE SQUABBLE. Trombefta, a Neapolitan singer of immense talent and world-wide reputation, •wording to hie own account, was giveu low so-called free tickets for the Scala ■anslonall last summer, and he took his j™», another brilliant artist on her hus.,nd's lowing, his mother-in-law, and Ms brother-in-law. The "billets de fanut" were of a peculiar kind, entitling Wm to four stalls on payment of iod for en. At the box-office he said, "I am Trombetta, give mc the best seats," but "*clerk unaccountably eeemed not to know «o Trombetta migbt be, and gave him Z T wcrst In the nouse - He com - *7L t0 thp n,anil * er . "ut the latter argued himself unknown. Arguvu UIS " £ auota « kind ensued. Trombetta, "'- wife, his mother-in-law, and his bro-tto-la-law an argued at once with the ™£' the secretar y. tie box-offlce clerk, •M other servants of the hall. Neapolitan f ll ODt . and eventually Trombetta yarned a mirror with his stick. The «»«». the secretary, and the clerks In«T Imi Upon Ulm - but ia a fla sh SlgZ Troin betta, her mother, and her bro- "«. w their turn, fell upon them. The fto t, WaS by reinforcement, v JJI tte spectators on both sides of the ?w \ 1U the ttick of the Slgnor injmbetta, catching sight of the boi-offlee ZZ "; Point-blank, and shot the unman dead. He has just been tried «»«• of testimonials to prove his nnivertfctl eP 1 t!I " OD, aud ln 'o™ed the Court once s\i " made his debut at 16 ' and at fame - In B««i- »• married Wtirt i Frencnwoma n- She was a great »toit°-,, Headoredher - He had made Ate- " Plrts of tQ e world, in Europe. Parts ' * nd , Amerlea - He P' a - ved both ™™lc fortan , erS ' Mrts - rie had tne B° od taw, I POSSe?B both a te aor and a barl5tS ;. His -^ fe saus - ith him - as «es«inWi ey had met wltn immense sucfeace , 8 ana -" The evidence for the deIT rather lrrel " a nt, as It coni»4 !° f Btatemen ts «y persons who l«r'"fr»» i setlnto mDß i c -halls with slmie*a™ h ketß, ana Bwore that th ey had louse r BlTen the worst i° the the,;„"■"• the testimony served, for Weat» „; 'PPwently considering that the | **» hi. .. DE * dlstlD Neapolitaa : trotte-f n 8 , Wl{e ' m °ther-in-law, and hia i ttle by fll t T £OUr bnd Bt " Us punish- S '"Mto.Jf'J™"" tto Siffnor Trombetm m ? B mmdCr of toe unfortunate «erk, aad he was at once dls-