The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-11
ONE MANS CRIMES.
Account of the Bloody Deeds fol
Which Schumacher Hung.
A Chapter of Horrors Out OF the Life
of an AharchIsi-The KIN.
Ing Of Eiser, the
Banker.

VIENNA, Aug. 1.-THE story of the muir
ders for which Schumacher and his accom-
phce, kammerer, were tried, is as follows:
Heinrich Eisert, u banker and broker, lived
on Mariahiefstrasse. in one of the most popu-
lous quarters of Vienna. At 6 O'Clock in
the afternoon, on Jan 10, two men entered
his office, which is situated on the ground
floor. A glass door at the back of
it opens into rear parlor, used by
Mr. EiSert n sitting room At the time
when the two men entered at the street door,
an old French lady WAS sitting in this parlor,
giving the boys IA lesson. One of the rutflans
stepped up to the counter at which Mr.
ElSert was standing, and asked him what the
rate of exchange or st Petersburg WAS,
While the banker was STOPPING over his az
count books one of the men suddenly sprang
over the counter and collared him.
Eisert cried out: Robbers" At the
same moment the other man threw
q handful of sand into his eyes
and face, half choking him A terrible
struggle followed. Eisert succeeded in getting
loose from the burglar and fled through the
glass door into the back parlor and thence
through another door into the ward Here
on the very threshold, his pursuer overlook
him and dealt him terrific blow OH the head
with an iron hammer EiSert sank to the
ground with a low moan Perc,iving,
however, that his victim was not
vet insensible, the brutal murderer
stopped over his PROSTATE form and gave
him two other blows with the hammer,
smashing nearly all his teeth and crushing
his right eye Then the monster rushed back
into the parlor, where the French lady and
the Eisert boys Were sitting, transtixed with
horror and unable 10 move. Here ii mad
frenzy, brute-like thirst for blood,
seized upon him. Brnndishing his ham
mer, he rushed with wild cry
upon the helpless creatures before him.
With one blow he felled the old
French woman to the ground; with another
he fractured the skull of one of the boys, Ru-
dolf, scattering pieces Of his brain all over
the room. Then he turned his fury against
the elder boy, Heinrich, and pounded his
head and face with the hammer until it
presented but one bloody mass The boy died
few hours later.
While this horrible tragedy was being Ell
acted III the room the groans of Eisert him
self, whom the ruffian had not succeeded in
| killing, and who had partially recovered
| consciousness, at last attracted the attention
| of n neighbor, the commission merchant
| Farber He ran into the dark yard and
stumbled over Eisert, and after finding
| out what was the matter he rushed after
| the murderers crying murder. The side
walks were full of people, the streets but
| imperfectly lighted, SO that Ii few minute.
| later the murderers succeeded in battling
their pursuer.
| Eisert died on Jan. %, and one of his boy.
four days later.
Detective Block was murdered on Jan 25
| He left his house at 7:30 O'Clock in the morn
| ing of that day, to go to the police office il
Floridsdorf His path lay over a large desc
Late field and through q gravelpit about tw,
meters deep. The latter was of large size
1t was bordered on one side by palisadins
| dividing it from garden inclosure and OF
the other it extended to the left bank of tn
Danube. The gravel-p pit was about five hun
dred PAGES from the main road to Florids
| dorf
About a. m. detonation was heard. an,
| people ran from all sides to inquire the caus
| of it. Detective Block was found near tn
middle of the gravelpit, lying dead on hi
back, with bulletmark above the left ear
The first who arrived was a shoemake
named Kicker, whose garden borders on tn
gravel-pit He looked over the garden
paling and and saw man leaning over an
other, who lay on the ground. and tearing
watch out of his pocket Before ticker couI
get to the spot the man had taken fight. H
took the direction of the old Danube bed
about 1,500 PAGES from the scene of the mul
der. Ticker, who, from glimpse at the bod
of the detective, was convinced that murde
had been committed, raised loud cries, an
ran after the fugitive, being soon joined b
several persons The man redoubled b
speed. the pursuers followed him. After
few minutes interval he had reached the be