Another Christmas incident occurred in the suburbs where it was. discovered that a Russian grocer and his wife had been foully murdered immediately after opening their shop in the early morning. From the examination made by the police it was evident that bandits had entered the shop just after it opened and while the owner's wife was in the yard collecting firewood.
It is inferred that her husband' had called out and she had rushed to his rescue, dropping her burden as she ran. Both the man and his wife had been killed by heavy in-Struments of some Kind, the injuries to their heads having the appearance of having been caused by weights or some iron blunt instrument. The house had been ransacked in every cranny, the bandits; having evidently taken time to carry. out their search for money and. valuables, though they must have got litre for' their pains. The double murder was discovered by the waterman who called every: morning at the house, The murdered Russians were comparatively young, 25.
30 years of age and were much zcspected in the neighbourhood, being Known as hard-
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