HONGARIAN TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2170, 8 June 1914, Page 5

HONGARIAN TRAGEDY

, ...BUSTIC-LOVER'S REVENGE, ; -:-f KILLS HIS SWEBTfiEART : ANE> ■■;... ■•; HER PARENTS .;,*:&':"<,■ By o&le2f.wl;—Pi-ess itessciaUoß-Ccrßyt'sslit '.'■' .'. ■■.'"■ ■■■■ Budapest,' Jun- 5. I A sensational rustic :..trmr,ody Ims drawn tiio eyes-.of the' whole, eoiuitrvsido to a villafio. church'-wherein fjonj darmes ami villagers. are" besieging' a ■ murderer. ■;.■■ ■ _ An agricultural labourer, named' Tomsk, was in lovo ■ «-it'n" Frantein Kfanser, da/iighter of,a farmer. ■..'. Tile Kransers-frowned/upon- bis suit, and refused to give theirj.conscnt to the--engagement. ... < This incensed' Temsi-o/'wiw attacked and killed Hen-' and Fran Kranser in revenge far their-refusal. ".'. •"' '■' He- next murdered Ms sweetheart., and upon being pursued took refuge in the steeple of the village church. Ho wounded throe of his purswefs, The- gendarmes- Were cnlied and Surrounded the clmrcli with ;i view to prftventing the escape of the lnttvderer. TorusKs, at times of telegraphing, still bi)Ws_ the steeple, and is withstanding the sicgo of the gendarmes am! villagers, '-file tragedy has aroused the neighbourhood to a. great pltdi of excitement. ■ TOMSK) STJERENDERB. (Ree. June 8, 0.80 a.m.; BirtJapest, June 7. Tomsie renewed the- firing at daybreak. The police repeatedly volleyed. Tonisic was armed with a. Browning rifle, and had three hißwlrnd cartridges, ffe killed three and wbtirclod niijctc-fi'n persons, and then yielded to a priest's npwal te surrender. ' Tho firing destroyed the altar and Jnaiiy pictures in the- church.