A Professional Murderer.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 416, 2 November 1889, Page 6

A Professional Murderer.

A Vienna correspondent writes-: 'A sextuple murderer, named PautGyoinber, was condemned to death last Tuesday night by the Szegedin (Hungary) Assize Court. The appearance of the prisoner — a hardened, cold-blooded assassin —is described as prepossessing. He is a wellbuilt, inteiligent-looking young man. During his trial he did not manifest any particular interest in the proceedings. He might have been a mere spectator ; indeed, he frequently smiled while evidence was being given against him. Some interesting details transpired concerning the origin of criminal career. His master in i;bhe art of assassination was a prison companion, one £eter Bessenyei, with whom he had been confined for some time in the same cell while undergoing a long term of imprisonment for thefb. Bessenyei advised his promising pupil never to join a band of malefactors, but to operate for his own account. He told him that the .best weapons to use were* a stout walking-stick and a hatchet, adding that he should always kill his victim, on the principle that "dead men tell no tales." This heinous counseJL was not lost upon Gyomber, who made h% debut with a t\\ ofold murder, in February, last year. The day before the crime he arrived at Esongrad, and obtained a night's lodging of an old peasant couple named Forgeteg. The man was seventysix ; his wile was blind. The following day Gyomber was entertaining his host and hostess with amusing stories, when suddenly he seized Forgeteg by fcho throat, threw him on the ground and throttled him. He then dragged the blind old woman from her bed by the hair, and battered out her brains with a footstool. He afterwards ransacked the cottage, making off with thirteen florins.' One of the judges having remarked that on this occasion -he- had not adhered to the principles of his master, Gyomber, shrugging his shoulders, replied ; " Well, you know,. -at suph a moment, you cannot think of everything." Ten days after the Esongradtlouble murder, Gyoin-. ber killed and robbed an old woman in her own house, this time using a hatchet. Last November he committedanother(hia second) double murder at Kistelek, his victims being an innkeeper named Tissoczky and his wife. On entering the bar-room Gyomber ordered wine, and soon began to chat and joke with the people of the house. Eventually he was accommodated with quarters for the night. When all was quiet Gyomber crept noiselessly to the "room occupied by Tiseoczky and his wife, /beth of wliQm he cruelly murdered .with a ■hatchet. His booty this time amounted to ten florins. ' At the trial his counsel askdd him if he would have killed them, had they given him the money of* their own accord. . "^es," replied the prisoner, •* in order that J they should not inform against, his.." 7H.is_. sixth victim was a woman, whom he first attacked with a hatchet, but finished off with a log of wood; ' He robbed her of a , quantity of clothing. In December Gyom- " ber attempted to rob and mUrder a woman who kept an inn at Szentes. He attacked her with a hatchet, bufc /she bit his' finger and raised an alarm, which compelled him to take flight. Last April he attempted to murder a woman, whom he found alone in her house with her two children. He confessed his intention to slay his victim, but she eventually recovered. He said ho did not touch her children,, as -he had pity on them. This monster of crime. dis- • played great attachment for his 'mother and his young wife, to whom he had, been married" only a short time. He was found guilty .of murder, attempted murder, and robbery, and was consequently condemned to death.'

Black undershirts for men will be shown soon by haberdashers. Saying one thing and doing another burns the candle at both ends. Mamie — I wonder how far it is to Heaven. Tom—Only one flight up.