THROWN TO THE WOLVES.
FATHER SACRIFICES HIS SON. BUDAPEST, March 6. Jolmnn Horvath, a peasant of Kapi, yesterday threw his eiglit-year*oid son to wolves -o save has own life. He was driving home from Eperies with the boy when four wolves got on the track of his two-horse cart and overhauled it, the road being m bad condition owing to tne melting snow. Horvath was unarmed, and as the wolves were about to attack him he seized his boy and threw him into the road, where the wolves tore him to pieces. Horvath escaped, and on reaching Kapi told how the horrible sight of the wolves devourmg his child has so fascinated him that he kept looking back until they were out of sij_iit. A village council was summoned to discuss his conduct, and it was decided to lynch him by clubbing him to death m Hungarian fashion. His life was saved by the arrival of tlie police, who had been informed of. what was happening, and Horvath was arrested;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)
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170THROWN TO THE WOLVES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)
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