THE DANDENONG MURDER

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 13

THE DANDENONG MURDER

A TERRIBLE CRIME.

A CALLOUS WOMAN.

(From Our Own Cohhespondext.)

MELBOURNE. August 13

A deplorable murder in Dandenong, some 25 miles from Melbourne, is creating much interest, because tho woman in the case is sister of the girl Thekla Duberke, who became so notorious in connection with the grea-fc " boot- box. tragedy" of three or four veara ago — the caws in which the body of a young girl, killed by an operation at the honds of an old woman, was committed in a boot-box to the Yarra by Duberke and the girl's lover. Duberke has since married, and is now in Queensland. The murdered man at Dandenong was a market gardener named Sangal. His wife was Selina Duberke, 36, and they had three or four children, of ages from 12 downward?. The wife had established improper relations with one August Tieler, a Russian Finn, who had been employee by Sangal ; and the woman's statement is that Tisler came to their hou=e during Friday night, beat her husband to death and threw his body into a well. The woman, even according to her own story, made no effort to save her husband, but, on the contrary, acted with the utmost callous- '' r.ess. After her husband had been killed and Tisler had gone, she coolly went back j to bed, first turning over the mattress, whicjh wai soaked with blood. Her little boy (David) gives an effecting account of ' what took place. He say>> he nas awakened at about 1 o-tcloek, as he thinks, by a series I of loud bumps on the partition wall between the two bedrooms. He heard a chokI ing, gasping sound coming from the direction ol his father's room, and again the thuds against the wall at the foot of the Led. Then his father called out in a choking \oioe, "Selina, get me a drink," and he heart! Ins moth«r more out of the room and presently return to it. While she was away the bounds were repeated with greater Molence, and the other children woke up ,and screamed. David coiild hear his father attempting to call out, and frequently using. a name which sounded like " August " At length he shouted, " Davey, come here." The boy was g^ttiug out of bed to obey, when his mother appeared m the doorway 111 her nightdress "Don't go!" she exclaimed; "there 13 a man in the room, and he mitjht hurt yon." She then lay down on tho bed beMclt* him, aiM li-tened to the 'trutfgle which was tt ill going on. Suddenly it ceased, and a moment !a<er the door was thrown op^n and the lif-tenors lizard the pound of a heavy body being >'.iau,jc(l through the sitting-room and out on to (1,»» verai.dali. " I wonder what is tho ma f te'%" c aid Mrs .Sangal, and again telling th<^ children to remain where thr>y were phe went out. David heard her go into h<»r bedioom and grt into bed He was so terrified, however, at what be had heard that he did not bleep cny morn that mtrht. In the morning he found his mother Fcrubbinn out the bed room, anil told her that there were more blood stains 011 the 1 She washed them off, and <--?h] nothing about the mci dent of the night

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