SCENE IN A COURT.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12140, 15 January 1908, Page 4

SCENE IN A COURT.

Two men named Wimmer and t Trinkl, sentenced in the Vienna Criminal Court to three years' hard labour, to be followed by detention in a penal colony, made a desperate attempt to revenge themselves on the Judge and Public Prosecutor. They made a rush for the bench, and had climbed the balustradelin front before Trinkl was seized by a policeman and pulled down: Wimmer snatched a policeman's sword and Struck at the Public Prosecutor. Four policemen with drawn swords attacked Wimmer and disarmed him, Both prisoners were then carried shouting from the court.