The Poole Telegram. — 1884-01-18 (Poole, Dorset, England)

BRUTAL MURDERS IN VIENNA. VIENNA, Monday—On the very day when Schenk, the man a-cused of the murder of four women, was brought hero in custody, another deed of robbery and slaughter was parpet aped in the Vienna auburb of Mariahilf, which for daring and savage atrocity will scarcely find a parallel. At the corn, r of an open square' before a church, in a much-frequent irl locality of that district, is ths exchange offi ie of Herr Eiseit, at 5 33 p.m.. the gas being lit, two men, one tall, fair, and burly, the other dark and of smaller size, et tared the office and asked the value of roubles. Herr Ei=ert named the current price, on which one of the strangers put his hand into his side pocket as if he were about to take out his purse. Herr Eisett looked at him, and the man sud tinily threw a handful of dust and sand into his face, which blinded him. He cried ' Robbers ' and ran to a glass door, leading to a smaller room, where an old Frenchwoman, nearly 80 years of age. was giving lessons in French to his young sons. One of the men rushed after him and caught him when he had passed through the door, and reached the entr ince in'o the court-card. Here the robb-ai' struck him with a hamm-r, first on the temple and then on the skull. The victm, whcse left eye was destroyed, after vain cries of ' Murder,' fell down. The villain left him groaning on the stones, and hastened I a -2k to to am ill mom, locking the door. Here he struck like a madman at the children and the old woman. One little boy of nine received a blow on the head which shattered his skull, and be fell down dead. The other, an elder boy, was also struck, and his injuries may prove fatal, but he afterwards succeeded in unfastening the door and tottering out to his unfoi turista father. The old teacher suffers from the effects of a blow on the forehead, which stunned her for a time. The moneY• changer had a short time before sent a domestic servant to the cellar for a chest in which t o send away some candied fruit. On returning she first tried to help her master, who muttered The pocket-book,' and felt about, leaving the marks of his blood-stained fingers on the wall. She was not strong enough to raise him, and she called the commissionaire from outside. At the same time the manager of a neighbouring business and a man in the employment of Herr Eisert came In. They saw what had been done, and through the glass door could perceive the two robber,. One of them had packet up the gold and silver coin and bank notes, while the other had torn out some sheets from the books, no doubt to destroy the evidence as to the number of the notes. The new comers tried to get in. but the door was locked, and the murderers escaped through the main entrance. A workman, while pestling the Exchange Office. Faw a man hasten forth, and with his hat drawn down run towards the end of the suburb, hut suspecting nothing wrone, be proceeded on his way. Afterwards, on entering a neighbouring coffee-house. he heard of these fearful crimes, and at once went to describe what he had observed to the police. Both the father and his elder son are alive, and are better. A blow on the head has laid bare the father's brain, and he is not able, even if he were allowed, to give a complete and coherent account of what occurred. 2000. fl eine in notes and some smaller sums in coin were taken. The thieves had had not time to try the safe, and were satisfied with robbing the counter. It his been disclosed thet Schenk, the wholesale murderer of servant girls, has been guilty of a'. least six severats ctimes. and that his brot ter and a blacksmith, called SAlostaeek, were his accomplices. Popular feeling is very much excited against the abandoned ruffian, and it Is belhived that more missing women would be found to have met a line fate at his bands. __SERIOUS