AN ELUSIVE CRIMINAL.
HIS ACCOMPLICES' STORY
(Received January 14th, 12.40 a.m.) BERLIN, January 13.
Sternickel's fame in eluding the police is almost legendary in Germany. It is the more remarkable because there is no mystery as regards his identity and appearance. A world-wido search was made for him in connection with the Silesian murder, yet Sternickel worked in various places near Berlin, and cultivated rather than shunned the police. Hβ was twice arrested and escaped by hoodwinking his captors.
His accomplices state that Sternickel planned to rob his master, assuring them that no violence would be nsed. They left without knowing that the victim was dead. Stornickel picked a quarrel with his victims in succession, threw a noose over their heads and quickly strangled them. He intended to burn the house in which the girls were locked. !
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14563, 14 January 1913, Page 7
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