St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-24
An Engaged Pair Arrested for
Many Cruel Murders in
Germany.
Servant Girls Decoyed by a
She-Devil and Destroyed
for Their Money.
Lawless Collegians Terrorize
a Town and Almost Com
nit Murder.
Mrs. Jewell Decreed How Coy
Should Die and Feels No
Remorse.

BERLIN, Feb. 23.-The police of Mag
deburg, large town seventy-siX miles
from this city,are instituting an inquiry
into a series of murders of servant girls,
information of which they have only
recently obtained. The crimes are of a
most bloody character. and give evil
dence of the brutal and depraved
nature of the persons who are accused
of having planned and carried them
into execution. The murders resemble
in most of their horrible details the
startling list of murders which were not
long ago unearthed in Vienna, in which
city man named Fritz Schneider and
his wife, by means of decoy ad-
vertisements calling for servants,
lured large number of girls to
their residence, where, upon the first
favorable opportunity, Schneider, as
sisted in his revolving work by his wife,
would treat the unfortunate girls in the
most outrageous manner and then
strangle his poor victims to death, aft
erwards taking possession of all their
effects.
An in the Vienna murders, these later
the purpose of robbing the girls. who
were inveigled to their fate by means
of bogus advertisements.
IntLove, but HTurderous.
The prisoners who are charged with
the murders in Magdeburg are man
named Fritz Erbe ana his fiancee, Dor
othy Bontrock. and since their arrest
enough evidence has been collected by
the police to impiicate them in the
mysterious disappearance of servant
girls who, while seeking employ
hent. were suddenly lost sight of
by their relatives and friends, who could
find no trace of their whereabouts or
learn anything as to what had befallen
them. Again, as in the Vienna case,
the suspicious of the authorities were
aroused by the disappearance of GER
tain one OF the victims. and the inyesti-
cation which followed revealed series
of foul crimes. 1885,
: Erbe and the woman BontrOck were
arrested on suspicion of having MUIR
dered servant named Kazen. Accord
Jog. to the evidence produced by the
authorities at the examination of the
accused couple, both assisted in
the work of decoying Emma KaZen to
her terrible fate, inducing her to
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for the commission of the murder on
the pretense of furnishing her with a
fine situation, the intended victim fall
ing into the hands of the murderers
without the thought of their designs.
Since the arrest of Erbe and his COM
paniOn, the police are making a diligent
and systematic inquiry into their ante
cedents and they have discovered that
the couple also
DecOyed and Murdered
another girl named Dora Klasses, by the
same means used in the murder of
Emma KaZen. The authorities are not
satisfied that they have unearthed all
the crimes committed by the prisoners,
and they are still continuing their in
vestigatiOn into the matter. The plan
of the conspirators in Turing their
victims always took the form of an ad-
vertisement asking for girl to act as
companion to wealthy lady. When
the police descended upon the culprits
the clothing of the murdered girl was
found in their possession, and will be
used as evidence against them when
they are brought to trial.
Dorothy Bunsrock has broken down
and made confession to the police, in
which she described the manner in
which the murders were committed.
She admits leading the girls to wood,
where Fritz was waiting to spring
upon them, and where, after
his bloody work was finished,
the victims were stripped of
all their clothing and money or valu-
ables i'll their possession and their bod
les were hidden in spot where it was
not likely they would be discovered.
The affair has caused sensation in the
vicinity of where the murders were
committed, and public Indignation is
very strong against the prisoners.