The Páva Street murder

Status: missing
Premiere: 19 February 1914

Background to film report:

Presumed Date:
17 February 1914

(Az Est, 20 February 1914)

Presumed location:
Room No. 7 at the end of the courtyard, Páva utca 15., Budapest
Police HQ (the building no longer exists), Ferenc József (today: Széchényi István) Square, Budapest

Event:
On the evening of 16 February 1914, 21-year-old Márton Hugli, a farm hand from Aldebrő, strangled and robbed 43-year-old prostitute Eszter Frisch living at Páva utca 15. Later on that same night the murderer voluntarily handed himself into the police, who took him into custody and transferred him to the police station in the IX. district. From here, police HQ was notified. Detectives immediately arrested the murderer, transported him to police HQ where he was interrogated the following morning. A few days later, he was moved to the jail of the prosecutor’s office.

Description of Márton Hugli:
“tall, lanky, red faced, wispy moustache, thick brown hair, large red ears, blue-grey-eyed lad wearing peasant clothing”

Kino-Riport footage:
“Crime scene recording”

Photographs and illustrations relevant to the event:

The Páva Street murder (Friss Ujság, 18 February 1914)

The Páva Street murder (Friss Ujság, 18 February 1914)

The Police Headquarters, 1899 (source: Szabó Ervin Library Budapest Collection)

Source:

Az Est, 1914. február 18.
Budapesti Hírlap, 1914. február 18.
Pesti Napló, 1914. február 21.
Váci Hírlap, 1914. március 1.