MOTOR OUTRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 8

MOTOR OUTRAGE.

-4 CHAUFFEUR. AXD MECHANIC KILLED. The most astute detectives in Russia have hitherto failed tp discover tho perpetrators of a double murder committed in the outskirts of Moscow recently, in extraordinary circumstances. It seems that two young men entered a low-class hostelry in Moscow, about 8 o'clock one evening, and after ordering some refreshment telephoned to a garage for a motor-car, which arrived threequarters of an hour later with a mechanic besides' the chauffeur. In tho meantime a third man had joinen the first two, and the three entered the car and ordered the chauffeur to drive to the Vladimir Road. , An hour or so later some peasants saw the car wobbling from one side of the road to tho other, and it eventually fell into a ditch, from which it was extricated by its five occupants. It proceeded on its way, but finally stopped a couple of vorsts further on. At this time the chauffeur and tho mechanic were not among the occupants of the car. Their places had been taken by two me-n who must have been lying in wait by tho roadside to join thoir confederates in Hie vehicle. Early next morning the car was found overturned in a small ravine, and after two hours' CTarch, with tho aid of polico dogs, the bodies of the chauffeur and the mechanic were found in a forest several versts away. The unfortunate fellows had been gaggect and bound and then dragged a long distance before they wero both shot through the head. As to the motives of the outrago tho most generally accepted theory is that the criminals attempted to enlist the chauffeur and mechanic in some robbory or other, and meeting with a refusal kilied them in order to prevent them from giving information. This supposition im borne out by the fact that the murderers were evidently unable to manage a car themselves.