A TRAGEDY OF UNRIVALLED HORROR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 281, 24 August 1880, Page 2

A TRAGEDY OF UNRIVALLED HORROR.

In which a little girl was the victim, was acted the other day Jn Magdeburg. { The child, who was seven years old, went into the beautiful Kirchhof one afternoon and while wandering about,, began to pluck the flowers from one of the graves. A who was watching her, seized the poor • little creature, determined to make an example of her, and locked her up in the Leicnenhalle, where four unburied corpses were lying upon tluvr bier- 1 . The day passed by, night set in, and the anxious parents sought everywhere for their daughter—of couise in v;>in. On the following morning, when the gravedigger returned to his work, he remembered for the first time the brutal punishment which he had inflicted on th'3 previous day, and that he had forgotten to release his prisoner before leaving the cemetery in the evening A frightful spectacle greeted him when he opened the chamber of corpses. Ihero, shrunk together in the corner lay the little maiden, stark dead, her fists clenched, and her lips bitten through by her teeth. She had died too evidently from sheer terror. The police had the greatest d'fficulty to rescue the gravedigger from the vage of the people, who declared that they would lyneli him without waiting for the decision of the law.