HUN BOY ASSASSIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1920, Page 4

HUN BOY ASSASSIN.

FATHER, MOTHER, AND SISTER SHOT DEAD. BERLIN, Dec. 17. The mystery of the massacre of a family of father, mother, and daughter has been cleared up by the confession of the 17-year-old son, who admits that he killed them at the instigation of his fiancee and her mother and brother. They wanted money ,and Erich Koller took the revolver they gave him and entered his father’s house. He fired at his sister, wounding her in the shoulder. She cried out “Erich, dear; Erich, dear!” Unmoved, he fired again, shooting her through the heart. In the next room he found his mother and killed her with his first shots at her. His father hastened in and young Erch fired twice at him, hitting him in the arm and neck. The boy then threw himself upon his victims and throttled them. He then cut their throats. Worked up to a homicidal frenzy, be took an axe with which he beat in their skulls, and then he dropped the bodies to the cellar. •He took his father’s pocket book containing £2O, and afterwards carried off, with the assistance of his fiancee’s family, all the valuables in the house, including clothes. Enrich had had quarrels with his father, owing to his refusal to work, 'but he went frequently to the house at night, when his mother and sister hid and fed him.