FATE OF VILLAGE BEAUTY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 71, 13 March 1914, Page 7

FATE OF VILLAGE BEAUTY.

How a peasant named Kuzmin, of berebrank, near Warsaw, unwittingly entertained the murderers of her 18-year-old daughter, the village beauty, and how the disobedience of a child brought the crime to light is revealed in the 'Retch.' Three pilgrims begged a night's lodging at Kuzmin's cottage. He at once complied and offered to pay for a bath tor each While the pilgrims were at the baths Kuzmin's nine-year-oM daughter hegan examining their knapsacks. Her mother scolded her but left alone the child continued to do so and found; a colored kerchief (the usual head-dress of a peasant girl) covered with blood. This she showed to her mother, who recognised it as belonging to her eldest daughter, who had gone to a neighboring village. Kuzmin with the village constable, went to the baths, where the pilgrims were arrested. Among their belongings was found a blood-stained knife. After some hours' search the girPs body was discovered buried in the snow on the edge of a wood, , She. had faro- as.«uM m tlwft nwdjued., '