MURDER OF EIGHT MONKS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 26 December 1881, Page 2

MURDER OF EIGHT MONKS.

1— — ! A shocking murder was committed recently at a monastry near the forest of Vraoyo-»Solo, in Hungary. This mon-istry, which was inhabited by eight monks who were believed to be very wealthy, was attached by a b^nd of brigands, but alarm having been given, a body of soldiers came to the rescue. The brigands endeavored to barricade themselves in the monaatry, and exchanged several shots with the soldiers, who were more than an hour before they could force an entrance. When they did get in they found the monks lying gagged on the floor, but could find no trace of the brTgattds^ After the monk* been' set at liberty they informed tbeir de liverers that the brigands had escaped by an underground passage leading from the cellir into the forest. The soldiers at once searched for the passage, while the monks went off to the chapel to give thanks for their deliverance. The Boidiers having explored the cellar and having failed to find the door of the passage, came back to ask one of monka to act as their guide ; but they Acre nowhere to be seen. Id the course of future investigation, however they found the dead^odies of" eight monkßan'a small mom and the mystery was then solved. The brigands seeing that thoy could nor escape had murdered the* monies snd^ hidden tbeir Tmtiiei" fu> this ?"room r having- .first Stripped* them of their^ clothing and put them on themselves. They then gagged one another to deceive the soldiers, an I while the latter were searching in tbe cellar had made off to their fastness of the forest.