SON MURDERED BY MISTAKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 842, 21 May 1910, Page 4

SON MURDERED BY MISTAKE.

TRAGIC SEQUEE TO PARENTS CUPIDITY. A tragedy almost without parallel is reported from the province of Galicia. A Polish emigrant named Przenikowski returned to his home in the village of Zielony after ten years’ absence in America. Eiis parents did not recognise him immediately, so Przenikowski pretended to be an intimate friend of their son’s. He asked lor a night’s lodging. The old couple gladly consented to keep him for a night, and plied him with questions. Przenikowski told them that their son had prospered in America, and said that he himself had ,£250 in his pocketbook, the result of his savings. After he retired tor the night the old couple decided to kill him and steal the money. They strangled him in bed, and then went through his papers. They were horror-stricken to find a passport bearing their own name, and, after examining other documents and certain marks on the body of the dead man, they discovered that they had killed their sou. Overwhelmed with remorse, Przeuikowski’s aged father wrote a letter informing the authorities of the circumstances, and then he and his wife hanged themselves. Their bodies were found next morning by a servant suspended from a beam in the living-room.