POLISH DRAMA
AIURDEROUS PLOT FOILED
WARSAW, Feb. IS. Incredibly horrible, recalling the the mordant genius of Edgar Allan Poe, was the sequence- of events near Krotqszyn, following which a murderous coupe have been arrested. ... Travelling homeward from the market of .Krotoszyri, where he had sold a cow, a, farmer,was mysteriously and fatally, shot from? a thicket.
• Terrified, his 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 to bed between her own. so-na. : ■ HUSBAND’S CONFESSION. Later her husband .. arrived . and confessed, to the murder. He was angerqd because he had not found the money in his brother-in-law’g pockets.
His wife then told him of tho boy’s presence aqd the husband announced that he would murder Him in his own baker’s oven and take the money. Shaken with fear, the sleepless nephew overheard the plot jand changed places with on© of his cousins in the bed, . , ’ . Tho murderer and. his- wife ' crept in gagged their own child, enveloped him In, a rug, and threw him into the.oven.-,,, .. , ■ , Meanwhile the intended l victim ran for the who found in the oven horrible evidence of the .crime. Tho Couple bave been arrested,.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 5
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