Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — TOOK AN AWFUL REVENGE. [ARTICLE]

TOOK AN AWFUL REVENGE.

Molten Metal Poured Into the Ear' of a Sleeping Man. A peculiar tragedy oceorred noar Juneme.itly. Four Hungarian pitc sr uiineri who bad by reckless uso or quieksiTveftaeotno badly salivated, bad employed » man named Zacherousky to nurse them The latter treated the poor unfortunatei lu a brutal manner, and be took spool*] pieasuro In abusing one of the quartet known ns “ Peter the Hun,” The nurss openly boasted that when his country men died, which could not be at a very l&ts day, he would como Into possession ol their mining claims, which are quite val* ual>!c. tin Sunday night Zucherbusky slept in the, whin, es his countrymen. Next morning he was found coldJu death, lie was lying bn bis back. his mouth end eyes wide open, a peculiar expression o) ugouy resting on his swarthy face,: Th* Hungarians denied all knowledge of how he met his death, hut at the* inquest Dr James Paulsen performed an autopsy and discovered that death had been caused by the injection of more than an ounce oi molten soldtr Into the right uuditory ca uui. The scalding metal burned its way thence Into tho bruin. On closely questioned, “Peter tho Hun’’ confessed that he hqd poured the hot metal Into thi righ t car of i ho nurse while the latter was adeep. He said ho did It la revenge fo> the erne! treatment which he and his companions had received from the de§d man