The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-18
AWFUL TRAGEDY PERPETRATE.D
ON THE SHIP PRINs CARL
BY A DESPERATE
KILLED SEVEN, WOUNDED FIVE
SPARED NEITHER SEX, BUT At
Tackled ALL WHO CAME
ACROSS HIS PATH
CONFESSED WHEN CAPTURED
said He Had Robbed the Captain OF
the ship-Survivors Tell How
the Crime Was Com
mitted

COPENHAGEN, May IA telegram
from Hoping Sweden, reports that as
the steamer Koping last night was pass
ing the Prins Carl man sprang upon the
aeck OF the latter vessel, and shouted,
II any ore comes near, will shoot"
AT the same moment woman was seen
hanging over the ships side shrieking
for help.
The man escaped in a boat. When the
Firms Carl was boarded it was found
that twelve men on board had been shot.
six of whom, including the capita n, were
dead. The rest were found locked in
their quarters. One of the wounded has
since died. The murderer is being pur-
sued
Details received here today from Kop-
Ing Sweden. of the terrible tragedy on
board the steamer Prins Carl plying be-
tween Koping and Stockholm, show that
shortly after passing Qucksund, at mid
night, man suddenly started shutting
all the doors of the cabins and saloons,
and then, with a revolver In each hand
and a dagger and knife in his belt, be-
gan firing at every one he encountered.
He stabbed the captain in the back and
lady passenger in the breast with the
dagger, and hacked boy with the knife.
He also shot the mate through the
shoulder, and of four gentlemen, who
were playing cards in the smoking saloon,
one was shot in the temple, because he
moved when the murderer warned him
not to stir.
The Prins Carl was stopped off Hoping,
and the murderer seized the opportunity
to jump into a lifeboat and row away
as fast as possible.
Search OF The steamer discovered seven
dead and nve wounded
The Frins Carl proceeded TO Stockholm.
where the police officials took charge Of
the victims
STORY OF THE SHOOTING.
The wounded say they were playing
cards in the smoking room about half past
IL, with other passengers, when somebody
put his head in the room and exclaimed
Look out! There's a massacre on
board" At the same moment shots were
heard. All sprang to their feet in order
to leave the cabin, but they found the
door fastened on the outside. While they
were trying to force the door shot was
fired through the window and hit one OF
them, man named Carson, who fell to
the floor. The other three Schneider,
Kenditor and Lindquist, burst the door
Lindquist, who was the first to step
through, received bullet in his head
Dtsregarding the wound, he ran after the
assassin to the sleeping room The fugi-
tive shouted down the speaking tube,
Full speed ahead" The engines were al
ready at full speed, and the engineer re-
piled: rs that the captain?" Receiving
the answer, Certainly; get all you can
out Of it, the engineer put the engines at
full speed as ordered. The assassin then
ran down to the engine room and threat
ened TO shoot the engineer If he did not
obey. At that moment the Hoping came
along, and the murderer fled in a boat
MURDERER CONFESSEs.
The police have tracked to Eskilstuna,
fifty seven miles west of this city, and ar
rested there the supposed author Of the
Prins Carl tragedy. He tried to fire a
revolver at the officers. When arrested he
gave his name as Philip Nordlund On
being questioned about the murders, the
prisoner replied that it was a matter for
the police themselves to unravel On be-
ing further questioned, Nordund confess
ed his crime and said he had stolen 500
kroner from the captain.