GIPSY BLUEBEARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 3

GIPSY BLUEBEARD.

J4¥STERY OF VANISHED WIVES,

So revolting was tbe evidence ;given on October 9tb in the trial ■of a gipsy named Vadosoh at St. "Gall that the judge was compelled >to order in an extra force of police *to save the prisoner from the wrath • of the Hpeoitttori in court. He was finally sentenced to ten years' penal se'rvUurie and perpetual from Switzerland, for brutally torturing his girl-wife in , the heart of a lonely wood. The ,judge described the crime as the most horrible and repulsive of the .present century. Vadosoh wus born near Vienna in r 1871, of gipey parents. At 18 he arrived in Germany, and married a ; girl 15 years of age, who died mysterious'y six months after the oere mony. There days after the burial of his . first wife he married another girl, ■who met with a similar fate after giving birth to two children. A third marriage followed, and within four mcntha of this mar liage Vadoauh made a murderous . attack upon his wife, for which be was sentenced to three yeais' imprisonment. On his release, aooompauiad by his two Rons, Pepi and Max, he took to ths road, visitiug - nearly every country in Europe. It is not known how ccanyjoung women he "married" abandoned, •or got rid of between the period of 'his release from prison and his ap- , pearpnee in Bohemia last, year, wheii ' ■he married a pretty gipay «irl only .16 years old. With her dowry he bought a'horse and van, and, ao- • cojipanied by his sons Pepi (aged .15) and Max faged 13), some other of bia children, he again commenced his wanderings. At Memmingen, In Germany, be was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the town for robbery. He was liberated on May 14th last, - and joined his young wife and children at St Gall. The girl during her hnsband's absence had spent the .little money he had left her, and ■ all of them were nearly starving. Vadoßch celebrated his arrival by beating bis wife and children everyv night. On June 10th, athe little village of Murg, on the shores of Lake Wallenstadt, he committed the horrible crime with wijicb be had 'threatened his wife for weeka. At noon he sent his son Max into Murg to buy a scissors, and at ten o'clock at night he pulled his young wife out of the van by her hair and ■ ordered Max to take a rope and a lantern and follow him into the for- ■ est. There he tied his wife to a tree with' ihe rope and fixed her head 'by tying her long tresaes around the trunk. He compressed her throat until the tongue protruded, and transfixed the tongue to the "Chin by piercing it with a long needle. Taking the scissors from bis horror-striken 'Bod, he out off > the tongue, the lips, the nose, and the ears of the unhappy girl. When some days after she reooverconsciousness, Vadosoh amused . himself by twisting the girl's broken arm and laughing when she groaned. On July 13th the mutilated wife ' managed to escape from the van, and to reach the police station at ,dt. Gall. Her husband waa at once arrested. The woman, who still cannot apeak, sat in court during the trial, • -covering her disfigured face witb her bands.