MURDERS IN SWITZERLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 82, 11 February 1879, Page 2

MURDERS IN SWITZERLAND.

• .Our Geneva correspondent writes under' ' date November 10:—"The Fribourg police think they have at length found a/ " clue to-the murder of the little girl whose .body, was found hanging in a shed "near the railway station on the 17th of October, , and an account of which appeared in the Times on the 26th of the same month, A child answering to her description was Been some time previously in the company of some wandering Italian musicians. It ' , is supposed she had been kidnapped,' The police are making great efforts to ; trace the suspected murderer, or murderers, but as yet without success. Meanwhile another murder has been committed in Fribourg. Two young men of. the - place were paying their court to tho same girl. She finally rejected one, and accepted the other; hit tho not .accept his dismissal quietly, anfflfetinued • : • to follow the girl to her homo, much to the annoyance of her father, who on® evening last week, when he was loitering about the house, ordered him away, and told him to como no more. Tho young man refused, whereupon the father took down a gun, and deliberately shot him dead on the spot. The murderer was, of course, immediately arrested, and will doubtless, if found guilty, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment. In view of frequent murders which are reported from all parts of Switzerland almost every week, Swiss papers are beginning to express considerable doubt as to the wisdom of having abolished capital punishment j ■and one or two of them have proposed as a sort of substitute tho -establishment of a secret international police for the purposo of rendering the escape of from justice impossible. None of them, propose the restoration of the punishment; of death; public sentiment is too much opposed to such a measure.—Times.