A HORRIBLE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 114, 14 April 1870, Page 7

A HORRIBLE.

The* Cologne G-azette relates a horrid story as enacted at Schrierne in the government of Posen. A country girl, living not far from that place, had received her inheritance of 300 thalers from the authorities there. On her return home she spent the night at a village ; having no acquaintance there, she took refuge at the house of the village justice, to whom in virtue of his position, she gave her whole confidence and informed him of the object of her journey. He was ready to take her in, and advised her to go to bed with his wife. "When all lay in a deep sleep, the covetous host got up, went in to the garden and dug a hole there. He then took a sharp knife, went up to the bed were the two were asleep, and cut the throat of the person lying furthest from the wall, took up his victim and buried her in. the garden. When he came back he found the bed empty. He had murdered his own wife instead of the stranger. The wife lay^ close to the wall during the evening, but had afterwards moved to the other side of the bed. The girl had got out of the bed after the murder, and. hastened away with her money.

A very extarordinary funernal took place at Devices the other day. The deceased was. a single lady, seventy years of age. Five years ago she had a coffin made, of which she was sck careful that she wonld never allow it to t be removed from her room, except when she paid an occasional visit to Weymputh, and then she took it with her. She always kept eight halfcrowns in it, being five shillings apiece for the bearers when their office became necessary. The old lady died of dropsy, and the cherished coffin being too small it was found necessary to have another made. Her relations, however,, would not separate her from the constant companion of her old age, and so they had the smaller coffin chopped up and buried with the corpse in the same grave.