SON MURDERED BY MISTAKE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13057, 27 April 1910, Page 5

SON MURDERED BY MISTAKE.

TRAGIC SEQUEL TO PARENTS’ CUPIDITY, VIENNA, March 8. A tragedy almost without parallel is reported from the province of Galicia.

A Polish emigrant named Przenikowski returned to his home 'in the village of Zielony after ten years’.absence in America. His parents did not recognise him immediately, so Przenikowski pretended to bo an, intimate friend of their son’s. Ho asked for a night's lodging. The old couple gladly consented to keep him for a night, and riled him with questions. ' Prhzouikowski told them that their'son had prospered in America, and said that he himself had £250 in his pockethook, the result of his savings. After ho retired for the night the old couple 'decided to kill him and steal the money. They; strangled him in bed, and then went through his papers. They wore horror-stricken to find a passport hearing their own name, and, after examining other documents and certain marks on the body of the dead man, they discovered .that toey had killed their son.

Overwhelmed with • remorse, Przenikowski’s aged father wrote a letter informing the authorities of the circumstances, and then he and his , wife hanged themselves. Their:..bodies were found next morning by a servant, suspended from a beam'in the living-room.