A POLICEMAN HIDING A MURDERED BOY'S HEAD.
The Moscow papers state that a great sensation has been caused at Moscow by the murder of a boy |in a, policeman's hut. ■ The boy had been sent by his master, an inni keeper, to change a 25-rouble note, and i while on the road displayed it to a policeman i with whom he was familiar. The latter inI TJted him to enter the hut, and closed the i door after him. Half-an-hour afterwards, i the innkeeper, alarmed at the absence of the r boy, sent out some men to seek him, and . with little difficulty they traced him to the . policeman's " bootka." The door they found j fastened, but the window they pushed open, [ and then a dreadful sight revealed itself, of , the boy's headless trunk lying on 6he table, . and the policeman concealing the head bej neath the flooring. Other policemen were r speedily "summoned to the spot, And the i gorodovoi, with his hands still stained with i blood, was taken before the distinct magia* 3 trate, who at once committed him. for trial. - ■ • ■ r.v.. ; ..- •• ■.:, ; :..,.:;•.',;■; / j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5496, 28 June 1879, Page 7
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186A POLICEMAN HIDING A MURDERED BOY'S HEAD. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5496, 28 June 1879, Page 7
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