DOGS TRACK MURDERER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 42, 10 July 1914, Page 3

DOGS TRACK MURDERER.

AX AUSTRIAN SENKATITjN. •V forester named Koblcr, on his rounds "ear Yillach, Oarinthia, Austria, who attracted on April 2» by moaning to a spot where he discovered a young girl King parity hidden by leaves an! branches which "had been piled on her. Her clothe* had been torn to ribbons, and there wen indications of a strugy.e having taken place. Koblcr hurried to liu- nearest hut to get stimulants and. id. but when he returned the girl was dead. A heavy stick and a stone, covered with blood, were found close by. The girl was identified as a. servant named Findling, of VMlach. (She was on her way bai'c from a, visit to liu people, 'in Bliiberg when she, was- attacked. Some' peasants remembered having seen two soldiers' in the vicinity, and the. police were led by trained dogs straight to the barracks at Olwvillae' The commandant had the men paraded in the barrack-yard, but the dogs failed to find the scent. The men were th°n c dired to change their drill dre-f, for tivir "walking-ouf uniform, and this resulted in a"dog picking out one of the men, on whose uniform blood spots were found. When taken to the spot where the outrage was committed, thD soldier confessed to having attacked and robbed the girl.