Weekly News. — 1892-07-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SENSATIONAL TRIAL IN SAXONY. TWO GIRLS MURDERED.  A woman named Rosalie Buntrock and her lover, Fritz Erbe, have been tried at Madgeburg for the murder of two girls whose acquaintance they had formed under the pretext of procuring them situations. On December 21st last the headless trunk of a woman, clothed in a few undergarments, was discovered half-buried in a wood, near the town of Neuhaldensleben. About a week later the head was found hidden not many yards away from the body. The remains, which were hardly recognisable, were identified as those of a young woman named Emily Kasten, who, in reply to an advertisement, had left her home on May 21st, 1891, to take a situation as travelling companion to a lady in Neulialderedeben. Since that date she had not again been heard of. After a long investigation the police succeeded in tracing and arresting the person who had inserted the advertisement in question, and who proved to be a dressmaker in Osnabruck, named Dorothea Buntrock. The woman denied all knowledge of the crime, but as at the moment of her arrest she was wearing some of the dead girl's clothes, and a trunk and other articles which had belonged to Emily Kasten, were found at her lodgings, her implication in the murder was clearly established. She had also in her possession a letter which strongly incriminated Fritz Erbe, a commission agent, a Burgstall. Shortly after her arrest a letter addressed to her by Erbe, in which lie announced his intention of shortly leaving the country for America, was received at Oznabrtick. It was dated from Bielefeld, and Erbe was arrested the same evening in a low public-house in the suburbs of that town. In face of the overwhelming evidence brought against her the woman Buntrock soon made a full confession of the crime. She stated that on the 21st of May, under pretence of conducting the girl Kasten to her situation, she led her into the Neuhaldensleben Forest, where they were joined by Erbe. After walking some distance in the wood the latter suddenly threw a noosed rope over the girl's head,and so strangled her. He then separat d the head from the body with a knife. The two accomplices unclothed the hody, and buried it about a foot deep in the sandy soil. The girl Kasten was not the only victim of the couple. Information was received from Hamelin that the daughter of an hotel proprietor named Klages, had hft about a year before to become a travelling companion to a lady in Cologne. It was arranged that she should meet a woman named Anna Blume (whose advertisement she had answered) in Hanover and travel with her to her destination. From the day Dora Klages left her father's house no news of her had teen received, and all inquiries had proved fruitless. When the letters written by the so-called Anna Blutne were compared with those of the woman Buntrock, it was at once evident that they were from the hand of the same person. A number of articles of cicitiling belonging to the missing girl were subsequently discovered. C mfronted with these proofs of guilt, the woman confessed that she and Erbe had also murdered the girl Dora Klages, and indicated the spot where the body would be found.— The jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty.  A special telegram from the Malta correspondent of the Globe says that the Amphion arrived there on Friday morning with an exceptionally large contingent of sick officers and seamen from the Mediterranean Fleet. There has been an abnormal amount of fever among the ships' companies in the Mediterranean of late.  !granter (to gravedigger): "Who's dead t• Grave-digger: "Old Squire Grumbler." "What complaint ? " "No complaint,everybody is satisfied." Satisfied."—There is one thing I like about Major Breckenridge; he knows when he has got enough." "Does he?" "Yee; when he can't get any more." “Pliwhat wud I want wid a bicycle?" said as ancient Irishman to a boy who had been chaffing him. "Bedad, I'd as soon walk afoot as to ride afoot!"  She (disappointedly): "The ring is--is pretty, but the pearls are so very,very small." He (airily): "Yee, I told them it was foe the smallest hand the city."