A RUSSIAN CRIME.
.A.'KKw days ago (writes the Daily News .Odessa'corresponuciit) seven fiirls, employed at a sugar factory iu Balta, left that town in tho evening to return to their native village at same distance. The girls, belated on the way, resolved to pass the night in the fiolds, and proceed at daybreak. They had located thenißelves near o haystack in a field adjoiu:ing,'and, having eomo slight fears of robbery, placed their united week's earnings in the hands of one of tbeir numbers for greater safety. The unfortunate girls were all fast aaleep, when they were tracked by a number of young men. The girl who had secreted the money in her dress had takon the precaution to oover herself with hay. The miscreants, iinding no money on the persons of the other mx girls, murdored them in cold \blood. They then firod the stack, and in the conflagration and smoke the surviving and terrified girl effected hor oecape, and reached the village in safety. An alarm was given, and the murderous band wcro all unobtcd. The survivor had rocognised the murderers, who wore employed in the aamo factory us their victims.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6948, 23 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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192A RUSSIAN CRIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6948, 23 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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