RAID BY BRIGANDS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 8

RAID BY BRIGANDS.

GERMAN COLONISTS HUHDEHED IN .' •" ' .' ' KUSSIA. ' , One of the. German farm colonies in the Ekatcrinoslav district recently suffered iroin.a murderous attack by armed brigands. . •"'.■' The miscreants began :by shooting in the head a labourer who refused to" lead them to the house, of. his master. They then, entered the .homestead of a colonist named Braun. The master himself was away,-but-his wife, a woman of forty, and his sons and daughters, were at home. In, reply; to the. ; demands and threats of thd brigands, Madame Braun. gave them .£3-10s., and "all-the keys of the house; and her elder daughter gave them 6s. and her gold watoh. .: " The brigands, however, insisted on receiving -.£500.' and - began torturing the women. Hearing, their screams, tho elder son of the'house, a boy, of sixteen, seized a sporting gun and rushed to their assistance, but was immediately shot down and mortally wounded. , ■■. ; ' /• :. . . The bandits then fell upon the women with knives, inflicting fourteen wounds on'the mother and ten on the daughter; killing them both.. ■ ■ " . .;' .. •. The younger son of the family, a boy of fourteen, made a heroic attempt to' defend his relatives, .but was riddled with revolver shots, stabbed, and mutilated.. A servantgirl, aged fourteen, was also killed. No trace.has yet been discovered-of the criminals.—Eeuter. .