Sensational Confession.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3738, 17 February 1891, Page 2

Sensational Confession.

1 Story of a Fiendish, AssasinationA brutal murder was committed i on December 27th, at Bohemia, a i small village three milas north of ' Sayville, Long Island. Late the ' previous evening Frank Krulis, a ' cigar maker, walked into the house , of Constable Sasheck, laid on the table a human finger, and said he had killed Winnie Croupa. a fellow [ cigar maker, and had brought a finger to prove it : Tl)e constable , fiist thought the man was joking, . but Krulis said < "I mean what I [ say. Croupa told lies of me, and I I concluded to kill him. I met him on the road to-night and cut his throat. , I wanted to make sure he would , never speak again, so I cut open his ■ abdomen and placed his bowels over ; his face; then I cut off a finger for • you." \ The constable hastily summoned a ! posse, and accompanied by the murderer they went out and found the body. It lay in a frame of bloody snow; the clothing was torn from it, and a hole the size of a sugar bowl was in the abdomen ; the entrails lay over breast, neck, and face ; the right ear and the index finger of the left hand were missing. When the party returned to the. village they Were met by an excited crowd, which wanted to Lynch srulis, but ihd console succeeded in getting him to gaqj. When searched the missing ear was found in the murderer's pocket, and he told Judge O'Brien he had brought it for him, and handed the Juc|ge the blood stained knife with which the awful deed had been committed. Throughout the examination Krulis conducted himself in a stolid manner. It is believed jealousy of Croupa's attention to a young woman was one of the motives Krulis had, for the crime. Admiral the Hon A. Dennison has returned to New Zealand after aa absence of nearly thirty years. This officer served in the. Hqw Zealand war as lieutenant in the Pelorus under Admiral Seymour. ; He comes on a visit for the benefit of his health to the North Island Lake District.