SHOCKING MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1931, Page 5

SHOCKING MURDER

A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. FATHER BAKES SON. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy r'ght. J (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 17. Going home from the market, at Krotoszyn (Poland), where he had sold a cow, a farmer was mysteriously and fatally shot from a thicket. His terrified little son, carrying the money, ran into the house and revealed the crime to his aunt, who took charge of the money, and put the distraught child to bed between her own sons. Her husband arrived and confessed to the murder, but was embittered because he had not found the money in his brother-in-law’s pocket. The wife admitted the boy’s presence, and the husband announced he would murder him in his own baker's oven and take the money. The terrified sleepless nephew Qverheard the plot and changed places with his cousin in the bed. The murderer and his wife crept ill and gagged their own child enveloped him in a rug and threw him in the oven. Tile intended victim meanwhile ran for the police, who found in the over horrible evidence of the crime and arrested the. couple.