KIDNAPPING AND MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3578, 4 August 1890, Page 2

KIDNAPPING AND MURDER.

. A mysterious orime is creating a sensation in Berlin. Some weeks ago a. child of two years of age. was stolen from its parents. The latter sought it everywhere;' but'in "vain. The police also made every effort to trace the missing little one, but, without success, Popular exoitemenfc \ reached a climax in the district \ few days ' ago anotlier cbild- disappeared. The mother, who was working in a fieft had left her child near at hand in a perambulator. A woman came up and admired the child, and offered to wheel 'it ujrnii down, and, while the mother's attention 1 was Engaged, ,j Biiddenly * "disappeared.,sith ■ ,ne\?a of this fresh kidnapping quickly spread, 'and caused gfeat'&mi The other night ... : the' parents:of the ,M> child werb told'b/a milkmon that he h'ad seen'their child in a neighboring ' village looking very miserable, ats

eing wheeled in .a perambulator iVom 1 the mentipa ; of-ithd perambulator tlio parenta immediately suspected that it was, not their own, but the other' stolen child. Thoy therefore hurriod. lo' the!'other parents, and irove with' them to the village of Pfariohdorf.'; Here a woman had been ~ Been wheeling a child, as the news of the kidnapping had spread, had beon stopped by a ,man and questioned cfl to where the child camo from. She gave confused replies, and tlio man instantly handed her over to a gendarme who was passing, and the child was oopfided to a family, There tho parenta found their child. The. woman, on beiiig questioned,' denied all knowledge of the second child, but subsequently confessed that she had murdered it, as alio wanted its perambulator for the .first child, The.murdorcd infant \vas found in a field behind a hedge. The murderess said,-in explanation of , her that she loved children so, " for the other child. , Uppop Tauoru Soa& Sou'd. . Tlio ordiuary monthly meeting was lieldon-Augus't 22nd, 1890. Present —TheChairman and Messrs Ruther/ord, Maoßne, Miller, and Perry. : The minutes of the previous meeting 'were read mil confirmed. Correspondence was read:— , From the Property Tax Commissioner re subsidy. under the Local Bodies FinanGO and Powers Act 1885. Ptom the Secretary to the Trcnaury re pnymenc of interest on loan. From Messrs Cloland, Girdwood, Chapman,.and. Siunders, re rates. Besolved—That a general .rate of one farthing in the £ be -now levied on all the rateable property of the district. ■ ■ > \ ' Accounts amounting to £33 14s 3d were passed for payment. The next meeting of the.Board will be held ou the first Saturday in ,#\Potober. ■ ■