FEROCIOUS MURDERS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1924, Page 2

FEROCIOUS MURDERS

A ll< )l(BIBLE SIGHT. • ÜBIUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE A6iioi:l A !':ON HER LIN, Dm ember 2. Twenty youths attacked the ulPucs «'i a bug.' quarrying ei.m| any. ne-ir S.cgeil, in M'c.'t p-lialul. am! killed eight occupants, ini'liiiliug time woman. Tla-y then -el lire to tim promised. Details of tlm K ,:en clime show that the U'ltrelers were earrieel out by a gang of twenty mi'll, in a lonely vil!.. 11 siilelii'i'. The i|uarry manager am! the police arrived a. lew minutes after tlm luitrderei's'’ departure. Thev v i'i'e I'eeiii roneeil with a horrible sight. The upper part of the bolls.■. which Herr Auger, teiu im-cu--1 ice I, was on tire, and Angefst.-in himself lay uiiiimh'il and nneiniseious.

His sci-ertarv and two ili'i'ks. lay eleml upstairs ironi knife wouniis. Angersfi'iiT-s wife lay dead on the bedroom lleor with eighteen kuite 'wounds. 11 is sister anel mother also were dead from knife ami axe wounds i:t adjoining hathronnis. while the garilener. and uiider-gareleiier's dead huelies lay in the corridors. The murderers’ attack was apparently carefully planned for tlie telephone wires were i-nt. anil the water supply was cut oil. Even the watch clog was poisoned. The maid servants who lied to the top floor perished in the flames, which the murderers started tiller their gltaslIv work holo'v.

Angerstein is not expected to recover, The crime is a mysterious as well as a ferocious one. Owing to the death ol every inmate it is very unlikely that it "ill ever he fully cleared up. 11 "'as at first thought that robbery was the motive but the safe, containing a large :um was not touched.