Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-04-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NECTSSARY TO WAIT:USE THS RISK OF CAPTURE. The emigrants were conducted towards the frontier one by one. The path lay through a dense forest. Whle one brother acted as guide, the other went on in advance, and lay in wait in a secluded spot of ! the wood. When the appointed spot was reached the two brother at a aigual simultaneously fell upon the unhappy traveller who hail entrusted himself to their guidance. To knock him on the head and strip him of all he posthased was then an easy matter. At first the assassius made a point of burying the bodice of their victims, but their crimes remaining undetected they grew more reeklesa and contented theruselvea with dragging the corpses aside into the brushwood, or leaving them lying in the mom. In this manner they are believed to have male away with some thirty or forty persons. Five naked bodies have already been found, and it is expeotel that when the snow melts and the Woods be thoroughly searched MANY MORE UHASTLY DOICoVERITS will be made. So far f 1.3 the police have been able to ascertain, the last victim was a belated peasant, who sought shelter in the Koulikovskya' hut. In the middle of the night when fast asleep he was put to death in the most horrible mariner for the sake of a small sum of money he had upon him. The elder brother took a large pot of boiling water wad poured it over the sleeping ruan's face, thus depriving him of consoiousneas. Koulikovsky than, ABBIKTRO FIT WS WIVE AN” Bee reau, compressed the victim's throat until life was extinct, and the body having been stripped was hidden among some straw in the stable. It was accidentally diecovered there by a neighbour before the murderers bad found a convenient opportunity to carry it into the forest. The enquiry which was immediately instituted led to the disclosure of numerous other crimes of the nature above described, and these are still the subject of police investigation. The eller Koulikovsky and his wi.e were arrested on the spot. The younger brottier aba..onded, but was *tibia, meetly captured in the woods, and the three miscreants are now awaiting their trial in the prison of Biclostook. They have not yet made any confession.  The Irish Nationalist party met at the House of Commons committee-rooms on Thursday, and selected oandidates to contest the various Irish seats at the general electicin. At a meeting of the Ashton-under-Lyne Cotton Spinners on Wednesday 76 per cent. voted in favour of a month's stoppage in order to reduce stooks. The resolution will be submitted to the Federation employers. At Wirkeworth, Derbyshire, on Thursday • °orener's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Mrs Hannah Bedford, of Derby, herbalist, for causing the death of Matilda Wardle, • domestic servant, by unlawful means. Mrs Ford, who was also joined in the charge, was ociernitted for trial as an accessory before the fact. At Leeds Amities on Thursday Geo. Taylor, late assistant overseer of Meetham, near Iladderstield, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for embemlement and falsifying his books. Ills defalcations exceeded £l,