A MURDERER’S CONFESSION.

South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2072, 12 November 1879, Page 3

A MURDERER’S CONFESSION.

An unusual but highly effective way of extracting the confession of his crime from a murderer has been tried by a judge in Hungary. The victim was the wife of a well-to-do farmer in Doroezer, who last week found, her body lying horribly mutilated in _ a field. Suspicion strongly pointed to his cousin, who, however, denied having anything to do with the business. The trial took place on the day of the murdered woman’s funeral, and the dismal sound of the tolling hell was heard in the Court where the prisoner was undergoing examination. Suddenly the judge rose,' declared the sitting over for the day, and ordered the police _ to tie the prisoner’s hands together, with the instrument with which the crime had been committed, behind his back. lie then ordered the prisoner to match after the coffin to the The nearer the man got to it the more doj ected he became ; his knees trembled, and he was bathed in a sweat of fear. As the coffin was being lowered into the grave he broke out into an agony of weeping, and begged the police to take him back at once to the judge to whom he made a full confession of the crime. The horrible tale the man told showed that jealousy had been the inciting cause.