A CHURCH TRAGEDY.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1927, Page 2

A CHURCH TRAGEDY.

ODESSA, Deo. (S. A rich Ural landowner’s body was placed in a el lurch and watched throughout the night by a priest and choir boy. When the church was opened in tlie morning the boy was found unconscious and the priest strangled. The boy the corpse V* rose up at mid-night and seized the priest. The boy collapsed and saw no more. The police found the corpse still in the coffin and suspected a local undesirable, who when arrested confessed that the priest refused to repay five roubles which he had borrowed and he (the arrestee) had in church taken the corpse’s place in the' and murdered the priest. ARMED LUNATIC. LONDON, Oct. 5. The story of a demand for increased wages made by a man armed with a. revolver, who has since been certified insane, was related yesterday at. a meeting of the Bath Surveying Committee.

It was stated that the man called on Mr F. P. Sissons. Hie city engineer and surveyor, and demanded increases in wages for members of the National Union of General Munici--~ pal Workers, a lump sum of £lO4 to each workman, payment while sick, no time to be lost through bad weather, and new mackintoshes and road shelters for roadmen. The man was abusive, but did not actually threaten to shoot Air Sissons. The demands were made without the consent of the local branch of the union, though two members attended to support them,