Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1881 — Eight Monks Murdered. [ARTICLE]

Eight Monks Murdered.

81. Semes Oaeette, London. :J. j'Y . I A shocking murder was committed a fortnight ago at a monastery nor ther forest of Vranyo-Belo. in Hungary. The monastery, which was inhabited by eight monks who were believed to be wealthy, was attacked bv a band of brigands, bnt an alarm having txen given, a body of soldiers came to the rescue. The brigands barricade themselves in the monastery and exchanged several shots with th* soldiers, who were more than an hour before they could force an entrance. When they did get in they found the monks lying gagged on the floor, but could find no trace of tike brigands. After the monks had bedn set at llberS, they informed their deliverers that e brigands had escaped by an under-

ground passage leading from the cedlar into the forest. The soldiers at onefl searched for the passage, while the monks went off to the cbaoel to give thanks for their delivery, Tbe soldiers having explored and having failed to find the door of the passage came back to get one of the monks to act as tbeir guide; but they were nowhere to be seen. In the coarse of further investigation, however, they found the dead bodies of the eight monks In a small room, and the mystery was then solved. The brigands seeing that they Could not escape, bad murdered the monks and hidden their bodies in this room, having first stripped them of their clothes and put th m on th?mselvcj. Then they gagged one another to deceive the soldiera,and while the latter were searching the cellar they bad made off to their fastness in Ue forest.