A Fearful Vengeance.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 6

A Fearful Vengeance.

The Osfcroff correspondent of the ' Warsaw Dnevnik' reports another instance of the savage vengeance occasionally wreaked upon an apostate co-religionist by the orthodox Polish Jews. Frank Platkowski abandoned Judaism for the Greek Church some 13 years ago, and believed that he had lived down tho vindictive opposition of his friends and relatives. Platkowski, who was resident in the village of JDiugosselo, near Ostrofl, latterly lived on ostensibly good terms with his neighbouring relatives. He received a visit from one of these a few days ago, who invited him to return with him to Brok, another village in the same district, where the relative alleged some property had been left to Platkowski. He unsuspiciously went with his relative. In passing: through a wood he Avas suddenly attacked by his two brothers and uncle, who dragged him into a tarantass they had waiting. After being severely beaten the victim was thrown on his back by one of his brother?, who knelt qn his chest and pinioned his arms, while the other, with the uncle's assistance, forced open and poured into his mouth a quantity of vitriol, splashing the burning liquid also over his face and head. Believing their victim to be dead, his relatives thicw his body out of the cart and left him. ITe was discovered next morning, and removed to the military hospital at Osbroff. Platkowski was scarcely recognisable by his> friends. Both eyes, the tongue, and one ear were destroyed, and the head and face terribly burnt. The victim, who was able to make his deposition, is not expected to recover.