MONKS ON TRIAL.
A POLISH SENSATION
St, Petersburg. Feb. 28
j The trial has opened of three monks !of St. Pauline Convent, Czenstochowa, charged with murder and sacrilege in October, WOd. About one hundred witnesses will { be heard during the trial. I The chief prisoner is Father Damazy 1 Macoch, whom the rope afterwards excommunicated. He confesses thai he murdered his cousin, Vaelar Macoch, through whom he sold the jewels, fearing that he cousin would divulge the plot. ' . The coumu's body, sewn inside a aofa, was found in the river.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5776, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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