Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-13
ONE MANS CRIMES.
Account of the Bloody Deeds for
Which Schumacher Hung.
A Chapter Of Horrors Out of the Lif0
OF an Anarchfst-Thc KILL
ing of Elser, the
Banker.


ders for which Schumacher and his accom-
plice, kammerer, were tried, is as follows:
Heinrich Eisert a banker and broker, lived
on Mariahiefstrasse. in one of the most popu-
lous quarters of Vienna. At 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
MIR. Eisert as 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 lesson. One of the rutllans
stepped up to the counter at which Mr..
Eisert was standing, and asked him what the
rate of exchange on St Petersburg was.
While the banker was STOPPING over his ac-
count books one of the men suddenly sprang
over the counter and collared him.
same moment the other man threw
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 yard. Here,
on the very threshold, his pursuer overlook
him and dealt him a terrific blow on the head
WILL tu IOll IlSeIG W UlS
ground with low moan. Perceiving,
however, that his victim was not
yet 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 monsterrushed back
into the parlor, where the French lady and
the Eisert boys were sitting, transfixed with
horror and unable to move. Here mad
frenzy, a brute-like thirst for blood,
seized upon him. Brandishing his ham,
mer, he rushed with wild cry
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 en-
acted in 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 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, tho streets but
imperfectly lighted, SO that few minutes
later the murderers succeeded in battling
their pursuer.
Eisert died on Jan. %, and one of his boys
four days later.
Detective Block was murdered on JAM 25
He left his house at 7:30 o'clock in the morn
ing of that day, to go to the police Office in
Floridsdorf. His path lay over large, DESC
late field and through gravel-pit about two
meters deep. The latter was of large size.
1t was bordered on one side by palisading
dividing it from garden inclosure, and on
the other it extended to the left bank of the
Danube. The gravelpit was about five hun
dred PAGES from the main road to FIorids-
dorf
About a. m. detonation was heard, and
people ran from all sides to inquire the cause
of it. Detective Block was found near the
middle of the gravel-pit, lying dead on his
back, with bullet-mark above the left ear.
The first who arrived was a shoemaker
named zicker whose garden borders on the
gravel-pit. He looked over the garden
paling and and saw man leaning over an
other, who lay on the ground. and tearing a
watch out of his pocket. Before flicker could
get to the spot the man had taken flight. He
took the direction of the old Danube bed,
about 1900 PAGES from the scene of the MUIR
der. flicker, who, from glimpse at the body
of the detective, was convinced that murder
had been committed, raised loud cries, and
ran after the fugitive, being soon joined by
several persons. The man redoubled his
speed, the pursuers followed him. After a
lew minutes interval he had reached the bed
of the old Danube, and made his way over th
large stones placed there, in the shallow waite.
flowing in the old river bed. On the other
side several workmen were digging for
gravel These men, having their attention
excited by the loud shouts, and seeing a man
chased by crowd making his way across the
water, awaited the fugitive so as to stop him.
The man, however, produced revolver, and
threatened to shoot any one who should ap-
proach. Most of those who had collected fell
back, but four men, braver than the rest, not
withstanding one of them was severely
wounded, kept up the fight and captured him.
The two workmen, who held each one hand
of the prisoner and were supported by some
constables who had come up, escorted him to
the police station. On the way there the
man in custody attempted to carry out a
fiendish plan. He made movement with
his left hand as if he were going to take a
handkerchief out of his pocket. Instead of
this, however, he drew out a dynamite car
fridge, which he threw with his full force on
the ground. He had, of course, hoped that
the cartridge would fall on o stone and
would explode.
He at first refused to give his name, but the
trial brought that out, and also that he had
been editor of The Freiheit, Herr Most's pa
per. He confessed the murder of Block, but
his partic ipation in the murder of Essert was
established by circumstantial euidanca