The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-10-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EVOLTING MURDERS IN BERLIN. The population of Berlin has been thrown into • ferment by the report of a murder which in many of Its details resembles the crimes of "Jack the Ripper." It appears, telegraphs the Ti,sts correspondent in the city, that a woman nam^d Nit.che wis accosted on Saturday night in the Holzmarkt-Strasse, a small street in the northern part of the city, by an individual who accompanied her to • cellardwelling in the same street kept by a married couple named Poetsch. Almost as soon as the woman entered the room in the house she was attacked by the man accompanying her. The murderer first severed his victim's throat, and afterwards cut open the body. Just at this moment a second woman, named Mueller, arrived, and attempted to open the door. As soon as she did sn, the murderer forced his way past her, pushed aside Poetsch, who had been aroused from sleep by the victim's scream, and gained the street. A man who accompanied the woman Mueller gave chase, but failed to catch him. As soon as the police arrived an examination of the apartment was made, but with little result. The victim was lying on the ground fully dressed, and from the ferocity with which the deed had been accomplished it would almost seem as if the murderer was a person of =wont; mind. Two knives were also found belonging to Poetsch. the proprietress of the had undoubtedly been made use of by rkasistimer. The police are, however, of opinion that Mae wagons were only used to make the @boded meemioliel that the first, the one on the elsMiks was by a dagger-like knife which iblestadefer must have had m his possession, and ▪ lk be tOok with him. The fact that the num .seffelfill • number of other women of the same class Wm, meeting with the woman ffitsche excloiles Mae idea of the deed being one of personal revenge. The We dam to which the woman belonged also poem the idea of robbery out of the question. Baron veva Itiehtbefes, President of Police, has offered a reward for the apprehension of the assassin, who is described as being about 20 years of age, of middle height, and slightly built, with blonde hair and moustache. This revolting mime is not the only one oommltted In Berlin cling Saturday. In the FranseeldAmass • workman attempted to murder his Wife's paramour, while in the Acker-strasse a married woman attempted to commit suicide bacause her lover had shot himself. In the Lateen-stream a well-dressed man attempted to shoot himself In a cab, but only succeeded in making • slight wound. AU these crimes, corning as they do so closely after another series of murder cases only • week or two ago, have greatly excited the public mind. The recent trial, for instance, of a man and women named !binge for the murder of a night watchman disclosed such a fearful state of ilemondisatids among the lower claws of Berlin that the Emperor telegraphed from Rominton Castle to the Minister Cl Justice to take instant steps to increase the m of public security. Then there were the murd:ral her mistress by a servant-girl barely 13 years old, In the Lutrow-strasse, in order to rob her of 600 narks, and the murder of a business man in his counting-house by _ons of his clerks, who then escaped with 12,000 marks and has not yet been traced.