A horrible murder, coupled with mutilation, is reported from Madras, the body of a native girl, aged 12, having been discovered with the severed head tied to the stomach, A Parsec has been convicted of a triple murder in Bombay, perpetrated in circumstances of extraordinary atrocity. The murderer is a youth of 18 who was employed as a servant. When the men of the house had left in the morning for their business avocations, the servant, arming himself with an iron curry pestle, first beat out the brains of his mistress and then those of her small grandchild. He then proceeded upstairs and battered to death his mistress’s daughter, who had been lying down unwell, He afterwards plundered the hMM and abseaudsd,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 288, 18 April 1889, Page 3
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122Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 288, 18 April 1889, Page 3
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