Wholesale Murder on the Danube
I |-' ' I. ■ " ♦ — • ' ."••:• i H)/$d Qilir^evo; Bn !! th^ tfan'ube, acci: 1 dent has^oently, ;T4jp& t^;a%b^ery I of a jßerie8 i .ot,sy.stemfe|ti(3 1 'wiiqlesale l -liiurdersy, The circumstances under 3 which -they! rweie perpetrated were given ! the ' Vienna correspondent of ■■ the Standard' as MI6WB-:^Numerous 1 "- i>e ; asafitß and' workmen f rota' the in-^ fc terior ' of Eoumania have been in tiie * .iabit of, crossitig /the' 'Danube, at the A "dbove,, mentioned port' for the" purpose [' of 'sejekiug labour in ( Buigaria, b.ut opi, : t heir return 1 jojurney, with th,ejr savingß, , feari?ig:*he in'diseiteet.questior-s pf the. ififEouhiauian'Customsi officials^ the.'io-a-, 5i vents' jbi'ave long 'Evaded '/I landiii^'on' a small : island ! in- the 'Dan,,l^e,\ ! ::!tHe^ ! 'feer^ ?^wbd'"by , i Tiuk'isiior b'oatnieti jr mostly during |the-; night. \, 3?ronii Jhis itfanid| ifciwdß possible. <to. "reAphj the .JJou.maiiiaiii shore in! different ways jinnoticed by the 1 authorities; isSUmei time .agof a,89idier-" li aScid6ntfy walking on the banks 'of 1 the river^- heard' terrible screa'ins ißsiiiig : apparently from 'the ■readßnesLr|tiiiat island." After d siljehce, of several* hp'ii^ sioiilar j screa'ins; were 1 again heardi! .by,,, perso^s,^ V-hppa. J tKg . -teolSiJeishaducaliedto. the sppf. jO'a police^ ? prbceedingMthi^her, jthey founji jth^tiODi^bthi occasions persons • cross-, 'ing tti£rlve* anti landing on islaridi had 'been murdered by their own boatfmjen: & co'm^reßhSive f 'knlq[uiT^ now! ins^ni^ feyH'6® 5°, Ul sf n M Fiscfal^^nerai;. 'result of which has been to establish, with! certainty? that>hjmdre,da_of jjwprk-; men; or peasatot» haFe,, been- murdered on the island at the moment of land^; anp i were, then Wb"bed-6f the money and goods' HKeiy^aid^itHthe^i 1 ,- Weir* corpses beitj'g either \ buried'ih graves already pre|pa red, for , them^pr tEro.irn among, the re,ed"Sj jin,' tils' : DHnube^ In all ckses: the, murderers; were /fCurkish i oiMßirigarian boatmen from Rustchuk/j who carried' concealed under thairj clothes fj 'the knives and daggers with ? .which . they despatched their victims, j one kfter tbefothe^ as they set foot in the deaa^oFnigftV on'the lpriely island in tHelDanube. <l 'AT/. H ' L O Y.\ iC. i f .
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 92, 21 January 1888, Page 3
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328Wholesale Murder on the Danube Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 92, 21 January 1888, Page 3
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