| Show ROBBING THE DEAD A mares bareis nest of remarkable dimensions men has just been discovered in karlowitz a small city in south hungary the rich patriarch Ang di died ed there at 2 in the morning a short time ago within twenty minutes a high ecclesiastic clesia lemajic and a prominent financier and political economist lc had plundered his strong box of florans florins flor ins 1600 of which they gave as hush money to the guards and chamberlain half an hour boar later dr milan tri jevic professor in the karlowitz college and director of a savings bank carried off the patriarchy patriarchs gold watch and a diamond cross the next day dr gruic editor of the go verneen vern meat t sheet se narod Jc irod secured through lemajic two of the patriarchs patriarch marriage certificates already signed and sealed though not otherwise filled out gruic altered these certificates so that they read as the patriarchs patriarch notes for and florins florans respectively payable pay able to r him on demand filed them in the proper court and got a judgment against the dead patriarchs patriarch a estate for florins florans flor ins one of his fellow conspirators betrayed him to the police however and he lemajic Stoia ard and are now behind the bars bare the whole affair has turned karlowitz Kari topsy the arrest of was followed by a run on the bank of which he was a direct orand the police had to be called out in a body to prevent a riot riet in commenting upon the scandal a hungarian daily says that estate is only one of forty or more which within the last twenty years have been plundered immediately alter after the death of the owners before the body of the patriarch was cold it says six big chests cheats full of gold and silver were stolen from his bed chamber twelve thousand florians florins were removed from the cap on the head of the dead bishop of Vojno within five minutes after he breathed his bis last the ducats dubats were stolen from the hat of the dying bishop hranislaw Hran islar atille he was still conscious in croatia and slavonia the region around karlowitz Kari the high ecclesiastics protect as much of their money as possible from theft by carrying their money in their caps on this account a bishop in this part of hungary always keeps a tight hold of his ca cap when it is not on his head or locked locked up in his strong box at home new ew york sun |
