The Cotton Factory Times. — 1889-08-23 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

PROFESSION-U. MURPEREII.—A sextuple murderer. named Paul Gyomber, has been condemned to death by the Szegedin (Hungary) Assize Court. ! He is a well-built, intelligent looking young man. During his trial he frequently smiled while evidence was being given against him. His master in the art of assassination was a prison companion, one Peter Bessenyei, with whom he had been confined for some time in the same cell while undergoing a long term of insprisonm- t for theft. Bessenyei advised his promising pupil never to join a band of malefactors, but to operate on his own account. He told him that the best weapons to u, , were a stout walking stick and a hatchet, adding cliat he should always kill his victim, on the principle that "dead men tell no tales." This counsel was not lost upon Gyomber, who made his debut with a two-fold murder in February last year. The day before the crime he arrived at Esongrad, and obtained a night's lodgli F. an old peasant couple named Forgeteg. The man was seventy-six, his wife was blind. The following day Gyomber was entertaining his host and hostess with amusing stories, when suddenly be seized Forgeteg by the throat, threw him to the ground, and throttled him. He then dragged the blind old woman from the bed by the hair, and battered out her brains with a footstool. He afterwards ransacked the cottage, making off with thirteen florins. One of the judges having remarked that on this occasion he had not adhered to the principles of his master, Gyomber, shrugging his shoulders, replied, "Well, you know, at such a moment you cannot think of everything." Ten days after the Esongrad double murder Gyomber killed and robbed an old woman in her own house, this time using a hatchet. Last November he committed his second double murder at Kestelek, his victims being an innkeeper named Tissoczky and his wife. On entering the bar-room Gyomber ordered wine, and soon began to chat and joke with the people of the house. Eventually he was accommodated with quarters for the night. When all was quiet Gyomber crept noiselessly to the room occupied by Tissoczky and his wife, both of whom he cruelly murdered with a hatchet. His booty this time amounted to ten florins. At the trial his counsel asked him if he would have killed them had they given him the money of their own accord. "Yes,'' replied the prisoner, "iii order that they should not inform against me." His sixth victim was a woman whom he first attacked with a hatchet, but finished off with a log of wood. He robbed her of a quantity of clothing. In December Gyomber attempted to rob and murder a woman who kept an inn at Szentes. He attacked her with a hatchet, but she bit his finger and raised all alarm, which compelled him to take flight. Last April he attempted to murder a woman, whom be found alone in her house with her two children. lie confessed his intention to slay his victim, but she eventually recovered. He said he did not touch her children, as he had pity on them. This monster of crime displayed great attachment for his mother and his young wife, to whom he has been married only a short time. He was found guilty of murder, attempted murder, and robbery, and was condemned to death.  A