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Show MAN IS KEPT JN CELLAR 22 YEARS Rcv&ir.g Crime - Cornea to Light h Lithuania. Kovno. Lithuania. One of the most unusual and revolting crimes In the annals of IJthuiinln has just iieen un earthed neiir (he little town of Telschl, " In l!Ml(i Josns Lukuschlus lived In Telschl with his feeble-minded brother, broth-er, Jonas; the former owned a small farm, which he decided to sell. He found a suitable purchaser In Jonns StrngauWtns, who agreed to take over the feeble-minded brother together with the farm and to care properly for the n filleted man. But Stragauskas placed the strlek en Jonas In chains, weighing 15 kilograms, kilo-grams, and fastened the chains to his cellar wall. For 22 years the mentally deficient Jonas was ubKged to wear away Ms life In this cellar, with no pastime other than counting the links on his crushing chain, During these two decades the primmer saw no sunshine and breathed only the damp, musty air of the cellar. The police were notified and Jonas was rescued. Jonas" body was covered with oil scars and fresh wounds, but he was too enfeebled, physically us well as mentally, to move from the spot. The pitiable prl.toner, who had survived sur-vived this agony for 20 years, knew nothing of the World war, although heavy lighting had occurred between 1!I4 and JitlS In the vicinity of his ill-fated prison. StraguiiPkas was arrested Hnd brought to trial. No witnesses could he fount! to testify against him and. thanks to the Lithuanian legal code, this left no course open to the court except to sentence Strngnuskns to two weeks' imprisonment and a fine of Mo litas. |
