People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — A TERRIBLE HOME-COMING. [ARTICLE]

A TERRIBLE HOME-COMING.

A Mother Unwittingly Kills Iler Own Son for Ills Money. A ghastly crime has just beemcommitted at the town of Balta,Podolia, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. A young man who/ when little more than a child, went to America, where he made a fortune, recently returned to Balta, His parents kept an inn there, in which he took up his quarters without informing them of his return. He then proceeded to have a bath, leaving all his money in charge of the landlady. Tempted by the largeness of the sum, the woman conceived the idea of murdering her lodger and appropriating his property. The young man meanwhile returned from his bath and went to bed, and she, seizing the opportunity, murdered him with a kitchen knife while he slept, and then deposited the corpse in a cellar. The proprietor of the inn, who was absent while this tragedy was being enacted, returned home on the following day, when his wife informed him of what she had done, and took him into the cellar, where the body lay concealed. On his way through the town the father had heard of his son’s return from America, and, after a close scrutiny, recognized the corpse as that of his own son, notwithstanding his changed appearance after many years' absence. The wretched woman had hardly looked at her visitor, and murdered him, without suspecting who he was. The unfortunate father,overwhelmed by the horrible discovery, fell down dead on the spot, while the police, who were informed of what had passed, immediately arrested the woman, who is now in prison awaiting trial.