The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-15
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tV| steamer Prins Carl left the Swe-
 dish town of Arboga for Stock holm. About 12 o'clock four gentlemen,
 who were sitting playing cards in the smoking room, heard sound of shots. and a man dashed in, pale and breath less, crying, There's a massacre aboardr
 They started up, but immediately some one slammed the door from outside and locked it. Next moment a pistol was forced through the window-pane, a shot crashed out, and one man fell dead.
 The other three burst open the door and rushed out. The pistol cracked again, and the first man, Lindgvst by name, staggered back with a bullet wound in the head. He pulled himself together and rushed after the assassin, who fled 10 the steering room, and shouted down the speaking tube to the engineer: Full speed ahead!" But the engineer was sus- Iicious and put the engine astern The murderer rushed below, but the engineer had barricaded himself in his cabin, and the man ran on deck again
 
 towing astern and escaped. It was found that he had killed seven people, including the captain, and wound ed five more.
 He was chased and arrested next day, a fter violent struggle. in which he near ly killed a policeman He was found to he man named Nordlund, who had recent ly suffered imprisonment for incendiar- ism. He coolly confessed his murders, and declared that he had not been in the least touched by his victims piteous ap- reals for mercy.
 He was sentenced to death, but even now the tale of the sea fiend's iniquities was not complete. He broke a bedstead in his cell and ran amuclz among his warders, killing one and maiming an- other.
 The world is well rid of such monsters IF human form, and the Americans will breathe more easily when they hear def nitely that the farm siren'-as she is called-Mrs. Gunness, is dead No country is free from such night mare creatures, twisted natures appar, ently born without the slightest respect for human life. Some, indeed, seem act ually to take a horrible delight in the destruction of their fellow creatures. Such one was Alfred Knapp, executed ct Hamilton, Ohio, in August, 1903, for the murder of his wife and four other women. After his conviction, and when he saw that no hope of life remained, ne coolly admitted that he had been strangler for years, bouncing on little children, throttling them to death, and hiding their bodies.
 The Human Mole was German do- generate, whose horrible crimes shocked ot only Germany, but the whole world. Johann Bebbe was his name. Though thin and weak looking, his hands and arms were abnormall.- developed and his finger nails were simply claws Without any other tools than his hands he could burrow into the solid earth.
 He had little tobacco shop in a back street in Berlin and here he excavated 6eep pit under the floor and arranged a u ap door over 1t. At the bottom of the i;it was a huge iron spike. He would decoy his victims onto this trap and hurl them down to be inlpaled on the spike below
 No one knows the full tale of his vic- tims. deep pit was found in the yard adjacent which was half full of molder- ing human remains. Among others was Fobbe's own wife.
 Another German criminal of similar type was the school teacher Mueller, who was arrested on suspicion of murder of Tuernburg, near Bayreuth. Evidence against him was only circumstantial, and 1t seemed that he might escape, till tn magistrate had the remains of a widow, who was supposed to be a victim of his. dug up and Mueller was confronted with them. Then he broke down and confessei io string of murders extending over q period of eight years. The details were go terrible that the court was cleared aud later the magistrate himself came out hite and shaken.
 A ghastly series of crimes came to light seven years ago at Ga asnano varano, near Rome. Tn this town lived a man named Mancini, who had been married three times. His wives died in rapid suc- cession and at the age of q Mancini