AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3482, 4 September 1882, Page 4

AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

The mysterious disappearance of a young girl, of 14, at Tisza Eszlar, in the Theiss district of Hungary, telegraphs the Vienna correspondent of the 'Time,' is still the cause of considerable excitement is the neighbourhood. She was missed about two months ago. Some weeks afterwards a report was circulated that she had been murdered by the Jews, in order, as the popular superstition will hare it in all these parts of Europe, to leaven the Faster bread with her blood. The authorities, who were thus first made aware of the disappearance, instituted an inquiry, at which a young Jewish boy, the son of one of the attendants at the synagogue, gave a detailed account of having, through the keyhole of the synagogue door, seen her killed by several butchers, according to the Jewish rites. It was proved that she had been last seen at the synagogue. Upon this the chief men named by the boy were arrested. In spite of the most careful search, and although a reward of 5,000 florins was offered, not a trace of her could be found. A few days ago the corpse of a woman was found floating in the Theiss. An inquest was held, which has only made the matter more mysterious. It was reported that the body had been identified by the mother of the missing as her daughter's but this is now contradicted. There will be much excitement until the inquest has been concluded and tho result is known.