The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-09
A HUNGARIAN CAUSE CELEBRE.

individual lives OF his congregation.
A HUNGARIAN CAUSE CELEBRE.
A trial is at the present time taking place at
Szegedin, Hungary, the extraordinary complicated
and dramatic history OF which il destined to
occupy o conspicuous place among the criminal
records Of all countries and epocns. The individ.
uas involved may be counted by hundreds-their
crimes and offences by thousands; and the firse
arrests took place far back as 1850. The LLOYD
OF Pesth gives an outline OF the case under the title
OF the "PrOces Sandor"-Sandor being the name Of
the chief OF band of maefactors whose depreda-
tons and atrocities rendered them the terror OF
Szegedin and the surrounding district. According
to the Pesth Journal ever since 1860 the inhabitants
OF Szegedn had become so terrified In consequence
OF the daring exploits OF Sanders band OF brgands
that they locked and barred themselves In their
houses every night at dusk and dared not to ven
ture into the streets even during the dav withous
being armed with revOlveIs and swOrdstickS.
RObbcries inCendlary fires and assassinati0ns were
tho order OF the day, and the maeiactOrs carried
the open day, and In the very midst or the town
itself. For q long time the criminals escaped,
rested on suspicion; and it was unaer these cir
cumstances that NJ de Raday was sent as a royal
commissioner 60 szegedin, charged with ul powers
and having at his disposition the forces and the
resources necessary to put an end to . state Of
things so dcpiorabIe and alarming: NJ de Raday
soon became convinced that not only Szegedin but
the whole cOnsitat and the surrounding districts
were infested BY formidable companies Of brlgands,
whose organization was complete and their circle
OF action clearly defined. When one Of these com.
panies was not sufficiently numerous to carry out
other o. tnssc 6ans Of
leagued together, not long ago succeeded In enter
ing the cellars OF bank and in carrying the immense
sale into the street. They failed, however, In getting
1t into cart which they had brought for the pur-
pose, and found themselves compelled to abandon
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the door OF the bank on the following morning, and
tine operation had been carried on without any
ones attention having been called to II or without
any one daring to give the alarm. After careful
anu minute inquiries the royal commissioner found,
t 70 nus nS nao numDer OF
CO mplices OF tine various bands OF brigands-that
even the titled nObties OF the district acted as re-
ceivers OF the stolen property number OF these
companies were soon tracked, and several OF the
bandits were arrested and given up to justice. It
was then found that the police agents were In
league with the malefactors At SZegedin Com
mssary OF Pol ce, two Judges four employees OF tho
Treasury and iOrty-sx detectives were arrested as
being implicated In deprcdations OF the bands.
Crimes have been brought to light which were
1 ago. sns a1 0
ago for q crime committed when he was forty
years of age. The novel and peculiarly "psychol0g-
ical" system pursued by the royal commissioner
In order to find out the guilty parties among the
hundreds Of individuals arrested Is worth record
the rest Of the world during their confinement and
their eyes were bound, in order to prevent any
thIsvss IN
totally unknown to Them were placed In the same
cells, who soon nsinuated themselves into the con-
fdence OF the prisoners studied their characters,
made themselves acquainted with their secrets and
used all their efforts to bring about their comics
sion. With regard to Sander, the royal cemmis.
sioner himself succeeded In getting o full and
complete avowal OF his crimes by adopting tactics
brieand Chief to be exceedingly vain OF his reputa-
ton, and to be In the habit OF locking down upon
his less daring accomPces as mere s .pnrloin.
fall upon his knees before his fellow priseners-the
small fry OF the band-whose instructions were to
ike themselves. The ruse was perfectly success.
ful: the proud Sanders "honor" was mortally
style himsel) Immediately entered into q full con-
Iessi0n OF his long series OF crimes. as well as those
OF his accomplices. The expedient resorted to by
the royal commissioner In the case OF another
famous brigand, named Jean Bajdor, was this -
Baidor is known to be exceedingly supersttious;
he is charged with having committed two murders
and insists upon asserting his innocence. One
evening the examining magistrate had Bajd0r
dressed him as follows John Bajdor, 1 cannot
sleep on your accounts. the ghost OF Peter Bodri.
whom you assassnated, appears before me every
until such time as shall have put the rope with
which you strangled your victim round your own
threw o rope round Bajdor's neck and
ordered him to be taken back to prison. At
midnight John Bajdor, who had slept soundy, aot-
anrlghted and rushed towards the door OF the
prison crying for help. This was the moment the
examining magistrate had anxiousy awaited he
made mis- way into the cell, when Baylor confessed
not only to having murdered B0dr and his son, but
also to having committed number OF other hein-
Gus crimes. In consequence OF these disclosures
the two bodies OF his victims, with the ropes stt
round their necks, were discovered; Acting on
Bajdors advice number OF other prisoners nave
made free confession OF the crimes they committed.
All the malefact0rs arrested IL must not De ior-
gotten, kept IN the utmost ignorance as 10 tno
charges which weigh against them. on their nrss
examination they were not questioned as to the
| preparation OF such or such crime; they
| were simply asked to give an account OF
| any offence OF which they might acknowledge
| themselves guilty. BY this means Q number
| OF crimes have been prought 10 neh, msheasC
| place Szegedin must have been to live IN may Do
formed from the following enumeration OF the cases
| which are now being tried before specially APP
| pointed Court when the royal commissioner hrst
| arrived at Szegedn there were 1905 criminal
charges TO be made. little later 500 more charges
| were made and when the Royal Commission had
termina its duties $50 fresh cases were brought
to light, making In all nearly 1900 crimes OF the
have already been given, and nearly all these judy
ments have been confirmed on appeal. The crimes
and offences discovered by the Royal Commission
amount to 5000. The principal charges are those
OF murder, robbery, pillage incendiarsm, &C.. tho
cases OF robbery alone exceeding 1000. The trial
OF this unprecedented batch OF highwaymen, which
commenced on the 18th inst, Is not expected to
terminate before the end Of the month.-London
Standard.
are being made among c0untrymen OF Johnson,
the murderer, and other friends Of his, to raise
FUNDS to sustain the attempt which Ia TO be MADE
| TO obtain for him new trial. Money has already
been obtained toward this object. The nearing
upon the motion for . new trial will not take place
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