THE AUSTRIAN MURDERS.
Clutha Leader, Rōrahi X, Putanga 547, 4 Paengawhāwhā 1884, Page 2
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THE AUSTRIAN MURDERS.
The Daily News' Vienna correspondent says : — Every step that the' police take serves to reveal fresh crimes of the brothers Schenk and their accomplice Schlossarek. Scheuk acted by minutely prepared plans, and several times he plotted against " 'one girl even-before he had disposed of another, who seemed ready to give up all to him. He is tall, handsome, wellmannered, speaks fluently several languages, and has the bearing of a gentleman. His brother has confessed to having helped him to murder the cook Ketterl, whom they shot dead and threw into the Danube early in August 1883. Hugh Schenk's wife and his child have disappeared altogether. A man answering his description was soon from a railway train near Lundenburg, on the Northern Railway, wrestling with a woman, whom he seemed to stab. This affair was not cleared up, because the i police sent from the station where the train stopped could find no trace of murderer or victim. Schenk confesses to having murdered a woman near Lundenburg, but refuses to give details. The principal witness against ■Hugh Schenk will be his sweetheai't, Emly Hochsmann, whom he first enticed,' like his other victims ; but finding her poor yet attractive, spared her life and even spent upon her much of the money obtained by his terrible crimes. She offered herself as a witness when she heard who her lover really was. His acquaintances were all made by means of advertisements in the local papers. Schenk made the woman believe that he was a Nihilist agent, a Polish count with untold gold,
that he had uncles in America, . and noble relations who would not hear of marriage with a servant. Clandestine marriage was always the excuse for leaving Vienna, and once en route with the girl's money safe in her bag, he got out at some romantic spot, where he met his accomplices, and. after murdering his victim, returned by next train. In March, 1883, he was released after two years' imprisonment. In May ho murdered the two Timals, after four weeks' acquaintance. In August the cook Ketterl was murdered, and in the last days of December, when the police had already traced him, he killed Rosa Ferenczy. During all this time he professed' to be. in love with two girls, and corresponded with at least fifty others. Last August he left Emily Hichsmann for one day, promising to meet her at night in a certain public garden. She waited for him with her relations, and when he came his merriment kept them all in good humour. He excused his insatiable hunger l>y the hard work which had kept him busy all clay, and then, surrounded by dozens of people, gave Emily Hochsmann a watch, bracelet, and rings, which he had taken from the" murdered Ketterl three hours previously. Next day he started on a Swiss tour with his sweetheart, and only left her when money fell short. The most pitiable of his victims was his last, Rosa Ferenczy. The illegitimate daughter 1 of an "-Hungarian nobleman, she was full of ianciful ideas, and when, at the age of thirty, this handsome man -offered her his hand and heart, she believed fate had turned at last, and leaving service followed him. Ho took some of her money, 1800 florins in all,' and lodgecfii'er in' a. remote suburb, visiting her sometimes. The landlady states that Rosa Ferenczy suspected him when ' absent," but "Whenever he showed himself she always . believed him. At Christinas he took her to the theatres and the Opera, promising to visit his sister in. her company soon. She prepared for departure', and said, crying, to the landlady, ' You'll either see me happy and married, or never again.' The landlady recognised Schenk and Sehlossarek as . the two. in en with" whom " Rosa drove to the station. Next day her body was found in the Danube near Presbourg. - The sums which Schenk. obtained by, his. murders, and which lie must" "have divided with his brother and his accom-. ?plice Sehlossarek, do not, amount to 6000 florins. But he ; never worked,, and lived comfortably^ .often, travellings for three, years at least, .as also, did his. accompj.ic.es. _ He must, therefore, -have, obtained money by other means, or many other murders; 'to which no clueis as yet obtained, were his work. The- Pesth' pdlfce haWa&Bd'for: Xis { fikWe ! s's, several girls having -been abducted ,£rom that - city of late years in -a _ similar' manner to that practised by Schenk.
