The Washington herald., 1908-08-07
DEAD BEAR STARTS
A MURDER HORROR
Baron Killed Bruin, and Ser
wants Were Tired.
BURIED as a CHRISTIAN
Vow Priest wants TO ex-COmmuni-
cate Baron, Baron Would fire
Coroner. Coroner Wants Medical
Men Debarred from Praeticins'
and Doctors Accuse the Baron

Rozsaheev. Hungary. Aug 6--About
the only eomfert that Baron seefried can
get out Of the situation Is that the bear is
dead And when he looks out OF the
window Of the baronial castle, and sees
the people OF LIpto County in acute eVoiU-
tlons about il all. and meets the reproach-
ful glance Of the coroner. and has 70 pa
tiently renew his explanation TO the priest
as 70 why the bear was buried In the
churchyard with all the honors due
Christian-weI. about shen Baron See
fried. grandson Of Franz Josef l. sue
curbs to turbulent emotion He Is now
in correspondence with the proprietors OF
various rest cures He wants 70 90 away
where the very name OF UrsUs Major is
unknown
servants start the Trouble
Baron seefried is the heavyweight
landed proprietor OF Lip,o County When
he goes bear hunting he goes IN style
Hs has servants 70 beat the brush. and
others 20 hold the bear. II need be. and
he could have a press agent i he wanted
one. A few weeks ago he shot and killed
a fine. large bear. After all hands had
sufficiently admired the beast and every
one had said. "Ach. IA. the herr is a
hunter Of such a streuuousness, ne or
dered the beast decapitated and skinned
I viii have the hide mounted for a rus
| for the baroniaI hail. said he Bury
the remainder Of the beast that il may
not become offensive during the warn
weather"
So ,ba servants skinned the bear and
NuaHH n =
warm weather. as the baron had observed
land the servants were tired They threw
Z what remained n the river Nag and re
! ported 10 the baron tnaI they had ooeye'
his orders Two weeks later hsheruaei
found the carcass in the river Inel
/ poIed IL 10 the shore. and after A cursorl
examination Informed The ofhcials-
Murder. Doctors Decide
a mans body has been found n tn
river" they said We fear il IS mur
der. We have looked al his face, but h
does not look Ike any one in this parisi
Maybe. now. they have people that loo
like that further up the river
The coroner-sherin Of Rozsahegy. Akii
Horanski. AZ once took charge The on
icial nose at once scented a mystery \
summoned Marcus Paljar. Samuel Eithe
and Arfad Afakoviezki. the three medic.
men Of the town. 20 decide on the caus
Of death.
obviously Il is murder said u
Ico-oner. but We shall proceed in d.
: form. First. We shall discover how q
J man was killed"
The doctors held an autopsy, and
4 once ran into a further oonvoiution
D the case In the stomach Of tne Geceas'
ithey found a quantity OF green berrie
fresh vegetables. and grass. He mt
have been demented-' was the report
/. the physicians. for he ate the grass
q The man was twenty-thTee years O.
2 is centiuete-s IN height strongly bui
o half OF his legs had been cut OF. and
! arms were missing. said the experts
But how did he die2' insisted {
: coroner.
Bullet in His Heart
The phvsicians looked again This tir
.. they found a bullet hole through {
: heart OF the deceased. He could 7
have shot himself was their report !
: must have been murdered
The entire countryside went into
= air Every man n Lipto County "
: owned a gun had to account for
= whereabouts and for every shot he p
fred for months past one man :
pesvish. In the re-crosSeXamination
said that the coroner had brains OF
fish" and that the doctors were Dol
Df headed malpractstioners- That was b.
10 snow guilty knowledge. and ne
arrested on suspicion Later the chal
q vas changed 70 murder. the identity
J. the murdered man stiI being a uyste
1l The newspapers OF LlptO County put
sc their stan men at work on the case, q
IN the girl reporters wrote columns OF tou
- District Attorney Gega Belopopoz
and County judges Georgzi Szekelyi 4
Jukupun Chudovsky concerned tn'
be selves with the plans for the trial
w the establishing OF motive IoF
xt crime Il was really exciting
IL The discovery that the deceased
been murdered relieved him from
- suspicion that he had killed hims
~ Consequently he was entitled 10 buria
eI- consecrated ground. though not with
II full ceremony that would have been
ID had he died in the odOr OF sanctity. c
es' fsssed- and shriven- The funeral was
~ tended by all LlptO County. and
lat headed by the coroner in his robes
De Office and wearing the large gilt ba
Is that distinguishes that Official Il
- I one OF the most successful eFefltS III
IN recent history OF Hungary
80 Baron "Queered'' with Church
Just at this juncture Baron Seefried
10 turned from another hunting trtp in
the woods and heard Of the murder case
ar the physical pecBJ BJiarities Of the mCrd
oy man. His head had been chopped O
asked the baron And his hands
feet? And there was q bullet hole thrc
his heart? And he was very stro
built. almost humpbaCked, but very 7
in cula-? That's my bear
And II was. The deceased was q
al TERED and the baron's suspicion was
= tified. The priest wants 90 excomn
1@s cate the baron because the bear
us buried as a Christian The baron "
ter to have the coroner removed from
lar because he passed upon the case
d. coroner wants to have the medical
the barred from practice because they
~. not tell the difference between bear
- man and the medical men wan
% prosecute the baron for polluting
waters Of the River Vag by throwing
49, bears carcass into it
- And the countryside. having recoN
? from its first horror is now rolnn
Of merriment
Ta-nErTT r0HTTD EN-