The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-01-18 (Blandford, 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 here in custody, another deed of robbery and slaughter was perpet ated in the Vienna enburb of Mariabilf, which for daring and savage atrocity will scarcely find a petalled At the c un,r of an open rotten% before a church, in a much-frequented locality of that district, is the exchange effi Is of Herr Eisett, at 5 2.) p.m., the gas beim.: lit, two men, one tall, fair, and burly, the other dark and of smaller size, eh 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 Uif he were about to take out his purse. Herr Ekon looked at him, and the man suddenly threw a handful of duet and sand into his face, which blinded him. He cried ' Robbers ' and ran to a glass door, leading to a smaller room, whore an old Frenchwoman. nearly SO 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 patted thr 'ugh the door, and reached the noir ince into the court-ward. Here the robber struck him with a liamm,r, first on the temple and then on the skull. The victra, whose left eye was destroyed, after vain cries of ' Murder.' fell down. The villain left him groaning on the 'tense, end hastened Leek to to smell mom locking the door. Here he struck like a madman at the children and the old woman. One little boy of nine received able" on the head which shattered his skull, and befell down dead. The wher, an elder boy, was also struck, and his injuries may prove fatal, hut he afterwards succeeded in unfasten. log the do, rand tottering out to his unfortunate father. The old teacher suffers from the effects of a blow on the forehead, which stunned her for a time. The moneychanger had a short time before Rent a domestic servant to the cellar for • chest in which t send away some candied fruit. On returning she first tried to help her tna,ter, who muttered ' The pocket-book,' and felt about, leaving the marks of his blooletained 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 • neighbouring • busineem and a man in the employment of Herr Eiger t came In. They saw what had been done, and through the glass door could perceive the two r 'bluer& One of them had packs i up the gold and silver c .in and bunk notes, while the nth, r had t ire out some sheets from the book', no doubt t r destroy the evidence as to the number of the notes. The new comers tried to get in, but the door was locked, and the mutt 'streets eeeaperi through the mein entrance. A workman, while parreing the Exchange Office, i.ase a man hasten forth, and with his hat drawn down run t twards the end of the suburb, but euspecting nothing wrong. he proceeded on his way. After wards. on entering a neighb ering coffee-house, he Attend 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 notable, even if he were allowed, to give a complete and coherent account of what occurred. 2,000 fl elms in notes and some smaller sums in corn were taken. The thieves had dad not time to try the safe, and were satisfied with robbing the counter. It has been disclosed thst Schenk, the wholesale min defter of servant girls. has been guilty of att least six Regan at crimes, and that his brot -ter and a blacksmith. called Schlonarek, were his accomplices. Popular feeling is very much excited against the abandoned rufli in. and it Is believed that more missing women would be found to have met a like fate at his hands.