Wholesale Murder on the Danube.
>'/;Atj Gftifg-evo,' Bff' thd.lpan'ube, 'lied, dent bas>eflptly*;le^'|£ t^a%bfc&rj of a series 1: of .systematic, 'wholesale 'itturdersy, The , circumstances iindei which ■ they! > > were - perpetrated were given the 'Vienna correspondent oi the Standard ■ as Mtfws-:^Numerous ! fceasaiits and' workmen from' the interior 'of Eoumania have been in tiie ..habit of, crbssibg .'the 1 iDaiiube. at the "above, .mentioned . J?oYt ! for tlie' purpose of setekiug labour in ( Buif4aria,b,ut op return- jojurney,, with th,ejr savingß, fean>g:ithe in'diseiteet quesdops pf th« l[EouL ; auian»Cußtom8 > officialsj the.'frai velleh-s' ji'ave lorig 'Evaded I landiiig' 1 op f a sniaU : islaiid !! in- the" <Dan;i^)ej ; :^liey: h *er^t(|wbd ) ' Iby1 by i Tiuliisiior boatmen,,, mbsfly during! |the: ; nighfe.^ '_, "S?pm Jhis, Wa^nd it?iWdß ,poßßible.(to "re^ph j the . Equmaiiiaiii shore in( different ways, uraiotic,ed by tiie ! authorities! --.it Sßme • time ; agof a 89ldier-' !! aßcid6ntty walking •■. on the banks r o t f ' tWo, ' river^- heawl. terrible screams ißSuiig : apparently from 'the 'reads pesiritiiat island:' After d siljence of seye^ljbp^r^simi!^ agaih heard J,bj; I j p^erso^s.j.Vibppa^'tlie -te6lcli|eishaducaliedto. the sppf. .OAtihe polide^ .thither, • they fpunji ! jthat'OHi'bbth'' boeasions persons crossing t:K£rive* and landing on itfte island had ib/een murdered by their own boatfmjen: ■£ co'miJr^n : Sive''iniq[uiTy nowj insti4<utß^ by R ;be Eou^anjaii Fiscfal^^erai;. >M, Po^eanp^ the ; ' ! result of which haß been to establish withj certainty? tha^b.qmlrfida-pfnwpjk-men;or peasatot» hafre., been.- murdered ; on the island at the moment of land^ anp I were, then Wfrbed^of tKe money ; and goods' { tlley r^haxi !; witH the^i 1 ,- their; corpses^ beiti f g; either J buried 'in graves already prepared for, them pr tEro.irh' among, f th.e re.edSj in the Danu pe. ; in all cknss:the. murderers; JCurkisbi o?^Bulgarian boatmen from Eustchuki 1 who carried' concealed under th«ur clothes'^the knives and daggers with .wjiich.they despatched their victims, one kftfer the^othei*,' as they set foot in the dead T o¥nigfnt ; on'the lpniely island in tHeHMhußa. H 'AT/ H ' L 0 7.1 1 1. J .» .
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Feilding Star, 24 January 1888, Page 3
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313Wholesale Murder on the Danube. Feilding Star, 24 January 1888, Page 3
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