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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 34, 5 February 1876, Page 2

V, Under the heading of a .'Psychological Riddle,' the r Neue F^eie Presse reports . an most* filrockin|» case of juvenile) depravity , as having happened : in]the distript of Dfobersburg, near, i he r- ' .village of Trighs. A little -boy of twelve years old wins playing ia a field : <;Withl two little girls, when one of the -latter, named Antonia Durneder, lay down and went to sleep. .The boy I Whose'b'ame: was Johatin Fraisi, 'went 5 i.iip'tto the; child nn.d contemplated her ijfori somei time,, during, which a' : hideous thought arose in his mind. He carefully collected the' best materials at hand' for a large bonfire, arranged these over the body of the sleeper and Bet fife to the structure. The flames immediately rpse. high above the unfortunate child, and when. the other girl saw the awful sight she screamed .to the young murderer tb put out the fire. But Jobann took pleasure in the spec-; tacle,' and "replied, *No, let Antonia burn; she will go the angels.' The wind soon scatterred the ashes of the burned child, and her despairing parents found nothing remaining of her but eome calcined bones. : The boy is obarged with the crime before the district Court of;pobersberg. Meantime, the general ; feeling, on the subject is ; one of utter bewilderment, J aS there is no'evi- " 'dence of the existence on the part of line little miscreßnt of any hatred' or ill-will toward his playmate* and be can give no plausible ground whatever for bin horjpjble oonduct,"