MURDERER SENTENCED
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD CRIME. LONDON, November 2. k A self-confessed murderer named Alexander Tamas, a farmer, was sentenced at Budapest io 10 years’ imprisonment. John Molnar, the nine-year-old son of Tamas’s neighbour, disappeared in 1918. The authorities, acting on anonymous information, recently dug up a skeleton among the roots of a cherry tree in Tamas’s courtyard, whereupon Tamas confessed. He said that John, while playing with his own son, manufactured a drink, which accidentally contained caustic soda. John suffered so terribly from the effects of this that Tamas strangled and buried him. He planted the cherry tree over the, grave, and as atonement distributed the cherries each year among the village children.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1931, Page 5
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112MURDERER SENTENCED Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1931, Page 5
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