THROWN TO THE WOLVES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8801, 1 May 1907, Page 1

THROWN TO THE WOLVES.

Johaii Horvath, a peasant of Kapi (Hungary), on March sth threw his eight-year-old son to wolves to save his own life. He was driving home from Epories with the boy when four wolves got on the track of his two-horse cart and overhauled it, the road being in bad condition owing to the melting snow. Horvath was unarmed, and as the wolves were about to attack him he sieized his boy and threw him into the road, when the wolves tore him to pieces. Horvath escaped, and on reaching Kapi told how the horrible sight of the wolves devouring his child had so fascinated him that he kept looking back imtil they were out of sight. • §2 A village council was summoned to discuss his conduct, and it was decided to lynch him by clubbing him to death in Hungarian fashion. His life was saved by the appearance of the police, who had been informed of what was happening, and Horvath was arrested.