A TALE OF HORROR.
RUSSIAN BRIGANDS AT WORK. (Received 31, II a.m.) St. Petersburg. May 30. Riuisiiiri attacked a Ger man homestead at Ekoterinoslav. A colonist rimed Braun was absent a. the time, and his wife and daughtei gave all their money and jewels tr. die robbers, who also demanded five hundred pounds. They tortured the two women until two little sons, aged 1G and 14 years, seined a sporting gun. The robbers immediately turned upon and killed the boys, and mortally stabbed both mother and daughter, inflicting fourteen wounds on the former and ten on the daughter. After also killing the servant girl, the criminals escaped.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 29, 31 May 1912, Page 6
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