WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER
BY POLISH PARMER SIN MEMBERS OF FAMILY KILLED (United Press .^flHociaUon—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright) WARSAW, 4th December. Enraged because his relatives were upposed to him marrying a German girl, a young Polish farmer living at Kattowitz killed six out of seven members of his family with an axe while thev were sleeping. He then cleaned the weapon and went to a public-house, where after ordering a drink he casually mentioned that he had killed his family. Everyone thought he was'joking. The bodies were only found the' next morning. The farmer has been arrested.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 December 1929, Page 6
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