TERRIFIED NEPHEW

Evening Star, Issue 20721, 18 February 1931, Page 9

TERRIFIED NEPHEW

OVERHEARS PLOT TO MURDER HIM CHANGES PLAGES WITH COUSIN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 17. (Received February 18, at 11 a.m.) Going home from the market at Krotoszyn (Poland), where ho had sold a cow, a farmer was fatally shot from a thicket. The ’ ified little son carrying the money, ran into the house and revealed the crime to his aunt, who took charge of the money and put the distraught child in bed betweeji her own sons. Her husband arrived and confessed to the murder. He said bo was embittered because he had not found the money in his brother-in-law’s pockets. The wife admitted the boy’s presence, and the husband announced that he would murder him in their own baker’s oven and take the money. The terrified, sleepless nephew overheard the plot and changed places with his cousin in the bed. The murderer and his wife crept in, gagged their own child and enveloped him in a rug, and then threw him into the oven. The intended victim meanwhile ran to the re. who found in the oven the horrible evidence of the crime and arrested the couple.