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Show MURDERED BY MISTAK2. An Extraordinary Story of a Father Wh Killed His Son For Another. An extraordinary story is i-eportcd from TarnopoL in Galicia. A peasant named Adam Gawrydo, whose property is in a small village near Z oaraz, in Galicia, cut his own son's thro it with a kitchen knife by mistake. Sor le week ago a Hebrew merchant, Solomon Barb, bought old Gawrydo's stock of honey and paid 50 florins in advance to make the bargain valid. When the time fox delivering the honey came, the peasant declared that he could not keep his word and was prepared to pay any damages to the merchant that the rabbi might decide. They both went to the rabbi, who said the peasant must pay the merchant 10 florins damages. This he did most willingly, and both went away together. On the way home they stopped at away lide inn and did not leave it till night It began to rain, and the peasant asked the merchant to pass the night in his house. The merchant accepted, and they went home together. The peasant prepared a bed of straw in the barn, and when the merchant had laid down went to his own room after carefully locking tho barn door. This frightened the merchant so much that he gofc tip, felt his way about until hu found a seo-ond seo-ond door, which was bolted from the inside, left tho barn and started to walk back to the inn. In the meantime the son of the peasant peas-ant returned home half drunk, and finding find-ing the barn door open walked in and dropped on the bed of straw prepared for the stranger. He was soon fast asleep. The merchant on his way to tin, inn met a gondarme, who asked him where he was going so lata Barb told him all that had happened, and the gendarme, gen-darme, thinking he had a dangerous man before him who was lying to avoid juspiciou, asked him to go with him t the peasant's house. There they found Gawrydo in the act of washing his hands, which were stained with blood. When he saw them he exclaimed, "Surely "Sure-ly I killed you an instant ago!" The gendarme searched the house and in the barn found the son of the peasant dead, ' with his throat cut. The peasant wai immediately arrested, Vienna Cox London News. Another Veteran Gone. News comes to Provo today of the death at Springville yesterday of Richard Rich-ard Bird, an aged and highly respected citizen of that place. Mr. Bird is the-last the-last of the six beads of families who went into Springville on October 1, 1850 and settled that place. He was in his seventy-sixth year and died of pulminory troubles, his last periud of ailin? having been very brief. All his life he has been a true man and worthy citizen, consistent Latter day Saint, and God-fearing man. His loss is deeply and sincerely mourned by all who ever knew him. Funeral services over the remains will be held tomorrow tomor-row (Fridav) afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock, in the Springville meetinghouse. |