GIPSY CANNIBALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10728, 27 October 1928, Page 10

GIPSY CANNIBALS.

GRUESOME SLOVAKIA TALE

At the end,of September, or at latest,. the 'beginning of November, a case was to bo heard before the Assizes at. Kaschau, in Northern Slovakia, against 103 gipsies whiich will fie unique in the annals of crime. No fewer than 110 witnesses have been cited. \ \ / '

.1 The band was led by oub Alexander filjce. During the examination the ihembers confessed to twelve .cases of murder; At first they would gWe no Information if bout what • was done with the'corpse's of the victims, hut, on the seventh examination, Fake, a young gentleman who would, it seems, commit a crime for a, few cigarettes; said, after a long pnase. m xl ‘‘T feel

1 Fillv'envent on to inform the, judge that tliey had eaten at least five corpses,j which had been expertly cut to pieces, packed in large' bags, and boded or roasted, as desired "by the women folk.

At; first the authorities refused to believe the story, but human bones were discovered, and four gipsy women testified that they had been forced'to cook the corpses. The men who were alloived to speak to journalists do not show the slightest trace of remorse. They are quite illiterate, and never went to school or to church. ' ‘ . ) . ;. ■ ' Asked- why they committed murder, Pilke answered: “Sir, ive are murderers and bandits: we stole wherelver we could find something, and we'murdered wherever we could ivnivrloi* I* * T+; io leirmrfiponf

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