SHOCKING MURDER.
A terrible crime is reported from Yarpolata, a town of about 6000 inhabitants in Hungary. One Sunday night some burglars broke into a house, and besides carrying off everything portable of value, murdered the inmates, taking the lives, .it is feared, of nine persons including the proprietor, Caspar Gold, aged ‘ fifty-three, his wife, fortyfive, a daughter of fourteen, a baby of six-months, an adopted daughter of twenty,', and; the aged father of j Gold, who was in liis ninety-second year. , All the above were found dead, their corpses being'shockingly mutilated. In addition to these the lives of a step-daughter and two servants are, despaired, of. One ,of the latter says that two men forced their way into the house, while another kept watch- outside. The two men then went from room Jo room murdering 'the inmates’of the house hi their sleep. The murderers are still at large. ,
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Patea Mail, 25 January 1882, Page 3
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149SHOCKING MURDER. Patea Mail, 25 January 1882, Page 3
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