The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
MURDER BY WHOLESALE.
Two Austrian Fiends i'm Human
Shape on the ScaffOld
Twenty Confding Servant Girls
Murdered for Their Money.

Hugo Schenk, the monster in human form
who murdered twenty servant girls in Austrit'
and his accompli,e, Schlossarek have been
hanged in Vienna, Austria.
Schenk, his brother Carl and Schlossarek
for long time pursued the calling of murder
as regular trade and for the past three years
lived luxuriously on the profits of blood. The
Schenks, Silesians by birth, are the sons Of
judge, who caus ID them to be well elucated'
How they first took to the occupation of muir
der is not known, but the Vienna authorities
have discovered that they associated them
selves with Schlossarek, confirmed crimi-
nal, and with several other bad char
acters. 1t is not uncommon in Vienna
for servants who have saved money to adj
vertise for husbands in the local papers, and
Hugo Schenk-a married man, living apart
from his wife-used to answer such aaver-
t1Sements, sometimes under pretence of being
an engineer in receipt of good salary and
occasionally as wealthy aristocrat with con-
tempt for class prejudicas. He would meet
the girls by appointment, and, after paying
court to them for a few days or weeks, induce
the silly, trusting creatures to draw their
money out of the bank, and, so provided, &C
company him on a journey tt get married.
Hugo Schenk would get out at )me roman
-
complies should lie inrea iiness, and together
they would stan cle or shoot the girl secure
her property, conceal her body and return
.i"NhIS 70 upNn' uS II houHiIl7 hau nappene,i
re gular business of killing.
a man somewhat of Hugo's stamp was OBJ
served at one time from a passing railway
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1-uiue1 ~ on tlle NorCherh railway Oh aus
Iia, ne pusseie5eIs were suIe Iiiey SaW tIle
, III tile acu VI RAISING ms "ii 70 SUI Ile
woman WIN dagger Willch ne heIa In ms
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nIi-u optl were e, l9' a ora
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II M iiiu e "oloii ~ uI''I Aei3 mo- iloooi.
dnele Is llI.ie uouuL uhau ne klilel gIeao
many moIilen men oeslue oiose WHOSE ulsaP
t'l Ic mas peeI repoiteI 10 the ponce. Two
eIe accot,il.el lor III May uoile 10 ueath alter
iour Weeks courIshlp' ana at tne u ihe tne
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pence. ma Lnese AuStI an mugs coh!lnI is
~ SoilutIO oliel 'iul uilu aoo'illiipIe
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uslik DOOR 10 thS Fostoliice' WIN ihe opJSc1
ri r avis tLe 1tlosl. st'n9iiiS 10 heI credit.
ne MUilai il''u peeil lIi's'eu' DuspicIoli was
iiuOuia!ly aroused at IAe p0sto,lce ana Ihe
r. ri Si Ie ~ III neio III
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osc1Ilos,area were placed on trlai on the lSth
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etemtn int sillCs III Oh al 9cnthk, "no
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aus.iIa Is soIlle" pecuIl''r. olA!y persons