A TRAGIC STORY.
PARENTS KILL THEIR SON*. WAR PRISONER'S HOME-COMING. By Teleffr«ph •—Pmsj Asan.—Copyright. Received March 5, 1.5 a.m. Warsaw, March 1. A peasant from the Ukrainian border, who was a war prisoner for three years, returned home to see his parents. JHc learned at a village inn that his parents were believed to be dean, but he decided first to visit them incognito. He knocked at the cottage and produced a roll of notes and secured a night's lodging as a. wandering stranger. His parents did not recognise him, and llicy withdrew to a .corner to hatch a plan to murder him for his money. The father went to the inn for vodka and the innkeeper congratulated him;on hitf-'son's' return. The father ran hortfe too late. His wife met him at the door with a 'bloodstained knife in her liamt" She had killed their son.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1920, Page 5
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146A TRAGIC STORY. Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1920, Page 5
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