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Show MURDERED BY MISTAKE. An Extraordinary Story of a Father Wh Killed His Son For Another. An extraordinary story is reported from Tarnopol, in Galicia. A peasant named Adam Gawrydo, whose property is in a small village near Zbaraz, in Galicia, cut his own son's throat with a kitchen knife by mistake. Some weeks ago a Hebrew merchant, Solomon Barb, bought eld Gawrydo's stock of honey and paid 50 florins in advance to make the bargain valid. When the time foi 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. Thej both went to the rabbi, who said the peasant must pay the merchant 10 florins damages. This be did most Willingly, and both went away together On the way home they stopped at a wayside way-side 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 the barn door. This frightened the merchant so much that he got up, felt his way about until ho found a second sec-ond door, which was bolted from the inside, left the 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 the inn met a gendarme, who asked him where he was going so late. Barb tolf! him all that had happened, and tho gendarme, gen-darme, thinking he had a dangerous man before him who was lying to avoid suspicion, asked him to go with him to the peasant's house. There they found Gawrydo in the act of washing his hands, which were stained with blood. When he saw them lie exclaimed, "Surely "Sure-ly I killed you an instant ago!" The gendarme searched the house and in the barn found the sou of the peasant dead, with his throat cut. The peasant vaB immediately arrested. Vienna Cor London News. |