TERRIBLE CRIME IN RUSSIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1007, 21 September 1882, Page 3

TERRIBLE CRIME IN RUSSIA.

A terrible case a short time ago came before the Yaronege Court of Law, A boy of 16, Niaholas Omannikoff, was tried for murdering his father, his mother, and his sister aged 18. This monster, handsome and even interesting looking, appeared in Court quite calm and collected, and answered clearly and distinctly all the questions that were put to him. His mother had sent him to borrow a sum from his uncle, which, having received, he went to church, where the money was stolen from him. Afraid to say he had been robbed, and fearing he would not be believed, to avoid punishment ho re» solved to kill his father. As soon as the family were all in bed, he took a sharp axe used to cut wood, and with one blow on the head killed his sleeping father. When his mother came terrified from the inner chamber, crying, “ Nicholas, what has happened?” he raised the bloody hatchet a seqopd time, and split bis mother’s head in two; he then m?hod upon his sister, who had been awakened by the noise, and felled hsr to the ground. Then lie went and lay down on his bed, but could not sleep. When daylight appeared he went and looked at the corpses of .father, mother, and sister weltering in blood, th*n hprriedly dressing hjrnaelf, lie went out to give the alarm. If Nicholas, tortured as he said by horrible remorse, had not confessed his unnatural crime, no one would hare ever suspected him r and lie might have escaped punishment, but he avowed all with a sort of dogged cypipisin perfectly bideqpsj. He confessed that the murder of his father had been premeditated, that he had long ■' thirsted for the old miser’s blood,” but that hp had no intention of killing his mother and sister, “ whom he loved,” that he did it pn the spur of the moment as the safest way of escaping detection, and that if they had not been witnesses of his first crime he would not have hurt a hair of their heads. This horrible murderer filled everyone in Court with fear atid pppugnanpe. |jp wag ppndpipped to fopv years’ ipiprigopmcpt in gibi-fia, not beipg of age, but thjs verdict e*cjtpd universal disgust and discontent—indeed, a bqy of 1(1 capable of Qommittiog speh atrophies ought to be made responsible, were it only’ to give fear to others. This indulgence towards murderers is tlie weakest side of the Russian code, and is bringing forth terribb fruit. These sorts of affairs, besides, are rarely uiet jjs they pjjghj; to belt is tlifilUjht that tbp bpy must hare been the inatrupient of some other person, for the motives giycn by Idm for killing J)is father are top imprqbab'fl. WhidpypF limy have begp tRe motive, however, tp" Incredible foot remains.

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