DAYLIGHT MURDER
BANKER ATTACKED IN HIS ROOMS. DONE TO DEATH IN LONDON’S BUSY CENTRE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 9. (Received November 10, at 8.56 a.m.) An extraordinary outrage was committed at the rooms of Mr Julius Schlitte, a foreign banker, In Shaftesbury avenue. . A man armed with a revolver vainly fired at Mr Schlitte, who apparently snatched away the weapon and threw it into a corner of the room. Tho assailant then attacked Mr Schlitte with a knife, and badly wounded him in the abdomen and shoulders, despite Schlitte’s trying to attract notice by liurlrng weight® through the window and shouting “ Police! ” and “ Murder! ” The assailant, brandishing his knife, then rushed into the street, stabbing a carter and a policeman who tried to stop him. The wounded policeman hung on to the man, and finally arrested the ruffian, who proved to be an engineer named APDonald. Mr Schlitte subsequently died in the hospital, to which he had been conveyed for treatment.
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Evening Star, Issue 13104, 10 November 1908, Page 6
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162DAYLIGHT MURDER Evening Star, Issue 13104, 10 November 1908, Page 6
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