The Sun. — 1861-10-21 (London, England)

LOVE, MURDER, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— The Criminal Tribunal of Prague (Bohemia), has just tried a young man named Kandler on a charge of murder committed under the following circumstances. In March, last year, Kandler, who is the son of a wealthy farmer of Slobec, and about 20 years of age, went to live as an apprentice with aM. Telkon, a miller of Mingowitz, near Prague. At the same time Mme. Telkon had in her service a goodlooking young woman named Anna Jak, whose mother, the widow of a captain of infantry, resided at Prague. An intimacy shortly sprung up between these two young persons, and as this connection did not meet with the approbation of M. and Mme. Telkon, Kandler was sent back to his family. A clandestine correspondence was, however, kept up by the young people, who wished to be married, but the girl's mother would not consent to her daughter's marrying a peasant, and the young man's friends were equally averse to his taking a wife without fortune. Things were in this state on the 23d December last, on the evening of which day some of M. Telkon's labourers heard the report of fire-arms in a field near the mill, and on going to the spot, they found the dead body of Anna who had been shot through the chest. Almost immediately after the water -wheel of the mill nearly stopped, and on examination, it was discovered that the passage of the water was impeded by a human body, partly filling the opening of the sluice. It was immediately taken out of the water, and recognised as the body of Kandler, still quite warm. The use of proper means soon restored sensibility, and Kandler then stated that, being unable to overcome the obstacles to their marriage, he and Anna had agreed to die together; that he had accordingly first shot her, and turned another pistol against himself ; but as the pistol burst hewas only wounded, and ha then immediately threw himself into the river. The letters which had passed between the two lovers fully bore out the truth of this statement, aril also showed that the idea of suicide had been suggested by'Anna. The Tribunal, however, after a long deliberation, declared Kandler guilty of murder, and condemned him to death. The prisoner immediately gave notice of appeal against this sentence. Two individuals, the one a mason, the other a joiner or carpenter, both residenters in West Portsburgh, formed a copartnery, and commenced building houses within tho boundaries of the burgh corporation. Ono of the partners was a freeman, the other not, The corporation, considering its rights invaded by anon-freeman exercising privileges only accorded to one of their body, brought t engagedmatters little. for the `ghatdefendants. was really How the curious an action in the Court of session against the interloper, and his partner, as aiding and abetting. Mr. John Clerk, then acnauasde eva vocae ,wi ds de ca esd in the affair, was the naively droll manner in which the advocate for the defence opened his pl ad* before the Lord mg. Ordinary. "My lord," commenced pleading in his purest Doric, at the same time pushing • up his spectacles to his brow, and hitching his gown over 3.1 • has thocht naething o't (the action), shoulders, " I wad action), had hooses been a new invention, and my clients been caught ouvertly impingin' on the patent rights o' the inventors l"—Reminiscences of qcotlish a 44 character,  THE CONFESSION OF THE WOOD LANDS 111U_RDE.R.