EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY AT PRAGUE.

Kumara Times, Issue 923, 15 September 1879, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY AT PRAGUE.

The people of Prague were thrown into a state of feverish excitement it few days ago by a repovfc that a outrage of more than ordinary violence and atrocity had been committed in • open day in one of the thoroughfares of city. A little after mid-day two young men, brothevs, named Wonura, enured the jewellery establishment of Joseph iveport,. shut the entrance' door, barred it, drew out six-barrelled revolvers, and proceeded to (ire shot after shot. The report of the firing and the shrieks of the inmates quickly brought together a crowd, who forced open the door. A terrible scene met ! their eyes. A girl, the sister of the murderers, lay on the floor in her death agony. The wife of the proprietor, dripping with blood, held an. | infant in her arms, which she was tryj ing to save from the murderous blows jof one of the brothers Keport himself I was covered with blood, and striving'' !to protect his wife and child. In a i corner of the. shop another brother lay jin a pool of blood. The police, after a j struggle, .meceeded in arresting and i binding the murderers; but they had I great difficulty in saving them from the j fury of the mob, who wanted to lynch I them on the spot. The motive of the ! crime is believed to be mere revenge. i Keport had reported to the police that . the sister, who with one of her brothers, j was in his employment, had bfi'm ill- , j treated by the o'iu-r t--v? '-.ro'.iiers. bYo" M ■'.•"; ;.:■•■-■••■ "ut,- ; v'\i{ ■ i:-, two per.ol.s murdered, and I siven others more or less severely | wounded.—Times, July 7.