CRIME IN POLAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 9

CRIME IN POLAND

COUPLE MURDER OWN SON. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 17. While he ..was going home from the market at Krotoszyn (Poland), where he had sold a cow, a farmer was fatally shot from a thicket. The terrified 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 in bed between her own sons. Her husband arrived, and confessed to the murder. He said he was embittered because he had not found the money in his brother-in-law’s pockets. His wife admitted the boy’s presence, and the husband announced that he would murder him in their own baker’s oven and take the money. The terrified, sleepless nephew overheard the plot, and changed places with his cousin in the bed. The murderer and his wife crept in, gagged their own child, and enveloped him in a rug, and then threw him into the oven. The intended victim meanwhile ran to the police,/ who found in the oven the horrible evidence of the crime, and ar : rested the couple.