The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-22 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE „MURDER OF SERVANT GIRLS.  Sohnelder, the wholesale murderer of servant girls, who has been under police arrest at Vienna for the past few days, was on Friday handed over for trial to the County Tribunal. His wife and seam ice is still in the prison hospital. The inves ti on, so far as it ham gone up to the present 1110111 till resulted in making it certain that the completely* been concerned in the oommission of the following crimes : —On June the let the man Schneider committed a criminal assault and robbery In the wood near Neulengbaeh, the victim being a general servant named Anna Djuris. On July the 2nd the woman Sohneider allured away a cook, Marie Hottwagner, who was mtrdered in Dreifciliren .Wood, near Neulengbach, her body being found a fortnight afterwards. On July the 7th the couple enticed away • lady's maid named Friederike Zuffer, from Transylvania, who was last seen with Schneider at an Inn at Neulengbach, and has since disappeared. Her clothes and other effects have been mold by Sohneider and his wife to various second-hand dealers, while a deposit of eight hundred florins which she had in the Savings Bank of Transylvania hm been drawn out by the woman Schneider, who ated her. Betwemethe Bth of July and the fir of August, when the pair was arrested, they tried to persuade several smal: tradesmen to go with them to Neulengbach, but did not succeed. In the mune of the sane four or five weeks the man Schneider was seen with several other yoling women. who have never since been seen or heard o 4 and whose cases the police are now investigating. They were mostly from twenty-five to 35 yWols of age, and the situation they were proMimed' by, the Schneiders was usually with ' a Baroness' who resided at Neullengbikoh, and who paid gob., wages. The police have no doubt that the num f young women this infamous couple have fo mundered for the sake of their little earnings 2.sai lair than is at pro known. The ,00rrespondent of the Standard be that *6.71..kes place in a city where, no shan& ean pass 24 hours, and no servant can eater a situation, . without being reported to the police, who keep registers of all persons residing in or omnin,g no. town. The system so annoying to visit, has proved to be useless in preventing youngrawann, at least, from being =deed ariy and undarad. A few years ago a man mood Hugoilliiinnit was hanged for a couple of Antler murdermie . ANOTHER TAMIL  A third murder, supposed to be the work of the Infamous Schneiders, has been discovered in Vienna. A workman in the country having read the accounts in the papers, took alarm because his daughter, who was in service in Vienna, had not sent him a word for almost two months. Saturday last being • holiday he came to Vienna to look after her, and went to the house where she had been maid-of-all work for some time. He was told that she was to have been dismissed in Juin but as her mistress liked her she allowed her to stay until she had found a place. Oh the 28th July she had returned home accompanied by a man who answered the description of Schneider, and told her mistress the man had tto nd an excellent situation near Hlosternenburg, he Danube, but that she must pack immediy and leave. When the father went to the • tin Saturday afternoon, he identified some . found in Solineider's ;possession as having belonged to his daughter. •The most remarkable 'part of the story Is that Schneider murdered three girls in five days. The police have in their possession several valuable gold chains and other trinkets, which were sold by the Schneiders, and the owners of witioh, have not been traced.