The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-22
MINISTER UNTERLEIT-
NER ALSO WOUNDED
Assassination of Premi Ter
Kurt Eisner Caused Tre-
mendous Uprising-Bava-
rian Diet Was Immediate
ly Adjourned After the
Shooting Took Place.

Berlin, Feb. 22.-Minister of Justice
Timm and Minister of Social Affairs
Unterleitner of Bavaria were wounded
during the shooting which took place
at the Bavarian Landtag yesterday when
Herr Auer, Bavarian minister of the in
terror, was shot.
Having fired at Herr Auer. man
sprang in among the deputies and fired
further shots at the ministers bench. At
the same moment several shots were
fired from the strangers gallery.
Herr Auer and Herr Timm were not
expected to recover from their injuries
A bullet grazed Auer's heart,
The assassination of Kurt Eisner, the
Bavarian premier, caused a tremendous
riot in Munich. The streets adjacent to
the parliamentary building were
thronged with crowds during the day,
and the chamber where the diet was in
session was invaded by a mob. The
attempted assassination of Herr Auer,
and the Bavarian minister of the interior
is interpreted as an act of revenge for
the killing of Premier Eisner, according
to advices from various German sources.
The men were bitter opponents. Herr
Auer is a majority socialist minister
and had been looked upon as a man like
ly to displace Herr Eisner as premier
The latter was the idol of the ultra-radi-
Gals, was staunch defender of the sol
diers' and workmen's council, and was
uncompromisingly for the national as
sembly
The political situation in Munich has
been drifting rapidly to the point of an
explosion and the ultra radicals, who
comprise the independent socialists and
the spartacans, are suspected of uniting
in final desperate attempt to save their
political control.
The immediate adjournment of the Ba-
varian diet after the shooting was due to
the fear that the holding of further ses-
sions would aggravate the situation.
The LokaI Anzeiger in Munich dis
patch giving the details of the shooting
of Herr Auer, says that the diet, which
had adjourned for half hour when the
news Of Premier Eisner's assassination
was received, had just reassembled when
a soldier, apparently spartacan, ap-
peared in the entrance hall and ran to-
ward the ministerial bench shouting as
he advanced. Shots were also fired from
the tribune. Herr Auer, the account
continues, was struck in the left breast
and sank dying on the tribune. Deputy
Osel and two officials, the account adds,
were also wounded. The deputies fed
in panic.
Herr Auer is a member of the majority
Socialist party. He first came into prom
inence last November, at the time of the
revolution in Bavaria taking the port
folio of minister of the interior in the
new cabinet.
The following month"; when the period
of unrest in Munich became grave, Auer
was compelled, at the points of revolvers
of revolutionists who visited his house at
night, to resign his portfolio. He was
given two minutes in which to do this.
in his written resignation, Auer declared
that he was surrendering to force This
did not satisfy the Teyolutionists, who
demanded a statement that the Tesigna-
tion was voluntary.
A short time afterward the ministerial
council of the people of Bavaria expressed
its anger over the forcing of Auer to re-
linquish his position and declared that his
resignation naturally is void and the
minister remains a member of the gov
ernment." The document was signed by
Kurt Eisner as minister president. Auer
was the recipient of many expressions of
sympathy from throughout Bavaria as a
result of the incident,
Last Dec. II prominent men, including
one non Bavarian duke, were arrested in
Munich, charged with having been en-
gagged in conference with the local sol
diers' council. 1t was asserted that a rev.
olutionary plot was on foot and that
Auer was connected with it. In a speech
in the Bayarian Chamber of Deputies on
Jan. 7, Auer said he proposed to inter
vene with arms against Germany if the
unsettled conditions in Berlin continued.