The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-16 00:00:00

THE SOCIALIST MURDERS IN
VIENNA.

The Vienna Correspondent of the Standard
writes :

Hermann Stellmacher, the murderer of Detective
Blcech, has now been fully identified, and has at last
made a number of important confessions, He pleads
guilty to the murder of Commissioner Hlnbeck in
floridsiorf in December last, and further alleges that
the robbery and murder at the money-changer Eisert's,
some weeks ago, was also committed by the Socialist
party of anarchy in order to procure money for the
agitation. The authorities have, therefore, secured the
author of the most important outrages, but until they
have been able to arrest his accomplices nothing of all
this is allowed to be published in Austria.
Stellmacher, who served in the Prussian army, and
later in the Saxon Contingent, was also at one time
employed in Dresden as a clerk on the State Railways,
but his connection with the Socialists came to the ears
of the Dresden police, who received a warning from
Switzerland that Stellmacher was implicated in the
plot against the Emperor William. Hearing of this,
he fled to Switzerland, first to Vives and then to
to Zurich, where he propagated Moat's Freiheit,
and a French revolutionary print. A search
in his lodgings has brought to light a quantity of
dynamite of the most dangerous composition, and a
whole case of chopped lead to be used for filling
bombs.

When arrested after the murder at Floridsclorf he
was at first handed over to the Korneuburg Court,
Floridsdorf being within that district, and this Court
for a time refused to deliver him up to the Vienna
authorities until the police revealed to them a plan on
the part of the Anarchists to force the Kornenburg
Gaol in order to free the prisoner. I have this charac-
teristic detail, whiilh, I need scarcely say, is not per-
mitted to be published in Vienna, from an authorita-
tive
.source. Before and even after proclamation of
the exceptional decrees, threatening letters came by
hundreds to almost every official of the central
police in Vienna, to the President of the Court,
and to all the Commissioners and detectives per-
sonally, telling them in a few words that they would
be shot on the first opportunity. It was the receipt
of these letters principally that led to the decrees, as a
portion of the police force declared that they would
quit the service if their powers were not increased. At
the same time, dynamite cartrieges were found in dif-
ferent quarters of Vienna, and the police received
information of intended plots, not only against the
central police office, but against the Crininal Court
and other public buildings.
It must be fully admitted that the exceptional
powers have been so need as to cause a minimum of
inconvenience to well-disposed citizens. As soon as
the first sweep had been made, and all the known
Anarchist leaders were arrested or expelled, the extra-
ordinary military preparations ceased, and even the
exceptional rules enforced on associations and clubs
have been much relaxed. At the same time, experi-
ence has shown the necessity of augmenting by about
400 men the Vienns police force which up to the
present numbers only about 2000, for the spirit of law-
lessnesss still prevails in Vienna and the district,
cases of robbery and incendiariam being of almost
daily occurrence.
THE DEFENCE OF SIJAHILL

Writing from Cairo on Sunday evening, the Corre-
spondent of the Standard says :
A telegram was received yesterday from General
Gordon. He himself was not to arrive in Berber till
today; but he had sent forth an Arab on a swift
dromedary with the message. He states only that so
far all is well, and wishes that a few robes of honour
and swords for presentation shall be sent after him at
once.

It is hoped that all the refugee families will arrive
at Berber to-morrow in steamers from Khartoum.
This will much facilitate Gordon's difficult mission;

On his arrival at Khartoum he will probably pro'
pose to the Mandi to cede to him all the terri-
tory south and west of that town, on condition that
a free passage is given for the garrisons in Sennaar
and other districts. It is doubtful whether he will
offer to surrender the Eastern Soudan.
An official telegram from England declares Suakim
in a state of siege. England will henceforth be
responsible for its safety. There is no mention made
in the telegram of the unfortunate garrisons of Sinkat
and Tokar, which presumably England abandons to
their fate. This is deplorable indeed, especially after
their long and gallant resistance.
The most acute humiliation and shame will be felt
by every Englishman here if these brave fellows, with
the women. and children they have so well defended,
are massacred within a few miles of English ships,
and with English troops available who could have
saved them weeks ago without difficulty.
Admiral Hewett has the entire command of the
littoral of the Eastern Soudan until the arrival of the
Monarch. The land forces, English and Egyptian,
will afterwards be under the orders of the Lieutenant.
Colonel commanding the Marines.
English responsibility is now completely engaged,
and any disaster which may happen in the future will
fall upon them, not upon the Egyptian Government.
Orders ha•ve been received from the Horse Guards
that no more English officers are to enter the service
of the Egyptian army. No English troops will accom•.
pany the native forces up the Nile at present.

The Special C3rrespondent of the Standard, in a
telegram dated Suakim, Saturday,.says :
An immense feeling of relief was felt here when it
was known that the Egyptian Government had
definit4y determined to remove the armed rabble now
in this town and that the operation would commence
at once. SO long as they remained here one felt as if
sitting upon a mine, for at any moment they might
have broken out in open violence, massacred the
whites here, and marched away to join the Mandi.
The work o!, embarkation has already begun on board
the Orontes, and as the voyage is short, and Egyptian
soldiers, are accustomed to close packing, the troop
ship w.ll relieve us of a considerable proportion of the
mut,nous rabble. Four hundred of the best,blacks
are to remain under English officers.
Scarcely less welcome than the news that the troops
were to be sent away waa the intelligence that the
shins of war are to take sole charge of Suakim. The.
next step should be the re.-All of all Egyptian officials.
Were these removed, the natives would be convinced
that it was England with whom they had to deal, and
it would be possible to re•open the roads for trade,
and to negotiate with the tribes of the neighbour.
hood, who have long akce lost all faith whatever in
Egypt.
'lle enemy's spies.are hovering rotnd Suakim. Ono
of them was captured this morning. He alleges that
the garrison of Sinkat have made a sortie, but that all
who took part in it were destroyed. As he does not
speak from personal knowledge, this may or may not
be true.

is morning a. parade was he:d of the remnants of
the army. Tha battalion of maed blacks and Egyp-
tians, who we the last arrivals from Cairo, refused
to obey orden. General Baker at once surrounded
them by the Soudan Battalion, which is the best of
those remainlng, and the mr.tineers were compelled to
lay down their arms. They were then marched down
to the watar's edge and sent on board the Orontes.
A telegram from the same source, dated Sunday,
says: Tha following proclamation has just been
issued z
"In accordance with a telegram received from
Nubav Pasha' President pf the Council, it is notified
that Admirallleivett is appointed Military and Civil
the Egyptian Government,
Governor e
r of
s Ssi uoan k i
of atbh ye E
eequently, he hero-,y drol a felt the town to hemn a state
eti of iege and under inrtLi law The inhabitants ne
not have any Lather fear, as the British"GoverntrAnt
have promisell to protect the town, which is now; per.
fectly safe'

The rinnaber cl patents taken out In the Unitca
States is 1888 was -11,106.- ',Under :he new law
Enncl will probably have as long a, list, for up to
8 it bad already reached 2288,

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