The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-05-07
HUMAN MONSTERS
Young Women Lured to their Deaths
by Offers Of Marriage.

Hugo Schenk, tine monster IN human forfI'
who murdered twenty servant girls In Austria
and his accomplish Schlossarek, have bech
hanged in Vienna, Austria.
Schenk, his brother Carl and schlossarek
for long time pursued the calling OF murder
as a regular trade and for the past three years
lived luIuriously on the profits of blood. ms
Schenks, Silcsans by birth, are the sons OF
Judge, who caus I'd them to be well educated
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 SchlosSarok, q confirmed cIimi'
| nal, and with several other bad char
ac,ers 1t is not uncommon in Vienna
/ for servants who have saved money 10 ud.
vcrtiSe for husbands in tie locnl parcrs, ana
| Hugo Schenk-a married man, living apart
| from his wife-uscd to answer such niver'
| tiscments, sometimes under pretence OF being
an engineer in receipt OF COOL salary ana
occasionally as n wealthy aristOcrat with con.
| tempt for class prcjldc's. lie would meet
tho girls by appointment and, after paying
| court t. them for q few days or weeks, induce
the silly, trusting creatures to draw Their
money out OF the bank, and 80 provided, &c.
Hugo Schenk would get out at some roman
tic SPOT, where he hal arranged that his nc
| completes should lie inreadincsS, ami together
they would st angle or shoot the girl, secare
her property, conceal her body and return
quickly 10 town, as il nothing had hapfenei,
t. plan fresh murders and TO carry out their
regular business OF killing
man somewhat Of Hugo's stamp was oh
served at one time, from n passing railway
train, struggling with woman, not far from
Lundenburg, on the Northern railway OF Aus
tria The passengers were sure th'y raw the
man in the act Of raising his arm TO stab tho
woman with dagger which he held IN ms
hand, but when the police arrived at the U
indicated, both were gone, leaving not a ira o
behind. Schcnk afterwori ndmit'ei thnt ne
did murder a woman In that n"lgnborhood.
There is little doubt that he killc great
! many women beside those whose disappear
, ance has been reported to the police. Two
: are accounted for in May, done todcath after
four weeks courtslip; and at the tine tho
house OF Schenk hal no fewer than fifty 9TH
, ers on their books. with all of ON Hugo
, | correspondent in lovelike terms, while the III
timacy which WIS to lead TO their graves ri
pencd. Had these Ausir an Thugs continued
10 conduct their frghtfil and abo ninah'c
trade with ordinary prudence the NIGH b.
| still at large: but one Of tn IN, having Killed
q scrvarr: girl, had the nudacity to take hel
bank book to the postoflice, with the obj c'
> of drawing the deposit standing to her credit
! The woman had been missed. Suspicion wa
naturally aroused at the posto lice, and ne
three principal members ol the ilrln were con
sc1lontly arrested. The Schonk broth rs ant
n SchlosSarex were placed on trial on the l2ti
Q of last month AMI convicted and sent need Il
i dcath Tho senton'e Of Carl Sch NIX wit
J. seems to have been but tool in the hands o
i the two arch iicnds, will probably he com
muted TO Imprisonment for life On the trial
n the three murdcrers pl AIDED "eSt,nuat N;
VI circumstances
II The method Of executing murdcrers i
y Austria is somewhat pee iliar, Sixty person
IL are allowed to witness the execution, whlc
n. takes place in n small courtyard in Idle IN
prison. A post abOIt eight feet high
>, erected in the center Of the yard At the Ia
. OF the post is n sm III hook and Mt the hottol
~ a pulley. Tho condemned man Is brougl
re out at o'clock in the morning pre,is"I
and placel with his back against one of d
pests. He is not HI nd'olicd In front {
H. him the troops AMI spect ltors form an irrcg
10 lar semi circle. while in the center stand u
VI iudgcs Of the last court o'AnTcal, in oriinal
y morning dress. AIT r some little time is o
= cupicd by the read NJ of the sentence, u 81
10 nal l. given by tn" public prosecutor for u
cs exccu ion TO proceed, Two STEPS are pla =
nd ut the foot Of Iost, which the condemned
go hidden to mount, his hands being th'n ~
~. Toned to his left thigh. The chief execution
N. then mounts ladder, and taking ont IF
PC pocket roro with loop at both ends past
no It n olnd the culprit's nc'k, and, s'cnr,n
knot under the left ear tighonS it. Meg
re- while one Of his assistant tie 'eet tl@e !
ar with another 70 o. nm |. pnS ing it ihrou
mt the prl ey, keeps the her end In his han
The chief cxecu,ioncr then gives the sign
AMI. with the aid of another ms itnnt, I
condemned is lifei by the rope alta he'd
his neck about six inches aud hanged on
hook Mt the top Of the post. The nttcnda
holding the rope attached TO his legs sim
no tan ons'y pulls with force While his oh
aces his hands on the criminals mouth n
he ewes. Schtnt and Schlc sSarek met til doc
VI in this manner