REVOLTING CRIME IN SWITZERLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3186, 6 May 1879, Page 3

REVOLTING CRIME IN SWITZERLAND.

A man named. Eennel was, tae first! week of January, sentenced to imprison-i ment,for life at Lucerne for a murder committed in circumstances peculiarly, Horrible. Eennel was a blacksmith by; trade, and while working at Chur he, .made the acquaintance of a girl named! Margarethe Voegli. After a short stay! at Chur, he went to Sursee, in Lucerne,; -whither he invited the ■girl, who,' it appears, was then enceinte, to come to him promising to get her work in the neighbourhood. Meanwhile he became the affianced husband ©f another young woman, Josepaha Solli, who had aj Btnall property of her own. To his! oontimplated marriaEfe with her hei feared Margarethe Voegli would prove' an s impediment. The poor girl gladly; accepted his-anritation to Sursee, wherej 'he met her at the station, by appoint-; ment, on the 26th of October. Uenneli led her to an adjacent wood, pretending I ,thatnthia: was the nearest :way to. their! destination. J^hen they arrived * at a, lonely, part of it near a grave which -lie , had already dug, he struck her on the: bead with'an iron "bar, and hairinip, as he thought,, killed, her outright and i tak^-her purse, watcli and q'rnanients,; he ,lKfw the body.into the grave, covered ' 6ter Jwith a: few sticks 'and sods 'and went away; but his victim, asi it prored, was not dead. After remaining in a state of unconsciousness several hours she revived and found that she was buried alive. After a severe struggle she contrived to uncover her head, and? heard ib»ydock of a • neighbouring church strike three. She lay thus for a "long time calling for help. At length she attracted the attention of a passer-by. Help was procured, and she was .removed to the Orphan House of Sursee. The same day, after giving birth to a still-born child/ she died from the injuries inflicted upon-her by her lover, who is expiating his crim* by an imprisonment that may last half a century for he is only twentyfo«r years old. .. ' - 'v 1 '