CRUCIFIED AND STONED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14359, 2 May 1910, Page 6

CRUCIFIED AND STONED.

A SPY'S DREADFUL FATE. (A STpRT. of Ihe awful ■■ vengeance wrought : upon a man whose espionage resulted in the dismissal of a fellow-workman is cabled to i the Australian papers from New York. !'; The - " traitor," as he was .loudly denounced, was a Slav, George Rabish, who, , with the man for whose discharge he was ; responsible,' was employed at the coal mines latfAtella,, in Pennsylvania. . ~.,., Determined to make an example of him, the comrades of the dismissed employee ! went to where Rabish was. lodging, arid J dragging him out of bed took him to the ; outskirts of the town. '' Here they stripped him of : all his clothes, and placing a crown of thorns upon his head pressed it until the i blood coursed down th^.victim's body. The crowd then improvised a cross "out of . some :s timber, : : to which Rabish ':*; was bound hand and foot. , : A nail was driven through :his tleft; hand, and.the wretched man was ; thenj stoned .until; the ;;police" appeared on ! the ; scene and cut him"down."' .'"" Rabish was then in a state of complete collapse, and "it was not long before he died from the fearful injuries he had suffered. Up to the present the police have arrested four of the men who participated in this monstrous outrage... ; ; ' :.-.■'*.-:.-: :tr