WHOLESALE MURDER IN POLAND.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 108, 30 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHOLESALE MURDER IN POLAND.

A horrible crime has just been committed at Siedlec, in Poland. The armourer of one of the regiments quartered in the town occupied the whole of the second floor of one of the largest houses ih the principal street, together with, his wife, two children and a niece. They had a Russian soldier servant. Last' Saturday evening, after a party which was given by the persons who occupied the first floor, groans were heard on the staircase, and the soldier servant was discovered terribly wounded. This led to a further search, when the whole of the armourer's family were found to have been cruelly murdered. An object, which appeared to be a black and red mass, was seen lying near the stove in the drawing-room, and this, on closer inspection, was found to be the head of the armourer's wife, completely detached from the body, which was at some distance ; the head was so battered and mutilated as to be unrecognisable at first. It ia supposed that the murder was committed by some comrades of the soldier servant, and that the object of the murderers was robbery, as the armourer was known to be in very good circumstances. One man was arrested on suspicion, whose shirt was covered with blood, but it is thought that others were implicated in the crime. The strange part of the affair is that nothing was heard of it hy the lodgers immediately underneath, who are a lawyer and his family, and whose party did not break up until between 10 and 11.