TRAGEDY OF THE TYROL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 106, 26 June 1911, Page 7

TRAGEDY OF THE TYROL.

WEALTHY LAD t MURDERED. , A voluntary confession made yesonlay by a * murderer lias caused auch'sensation in Vienna. Some time ■.go, in the Sommering district of the Austrian Tyrol, a lady named Maria Weber was found dead at the foot of „ procioico. She was well known in Vienna for her charitable works, tad was also in private life a por•on of remarkable energy, very sucossfnl in house speculation, in which ■.ho often ventured enormous sums, tnd thus secured a large fortune, .’ran Weber was passionately fond of touring, and made one of her freiuent excursions to the Sommering heights. Her dead body was dis-j •oyered, after a search, at the dent of i stoop' rock. It was generally hrihved by the doctors that, as; she was a woman of advanced yeahs' iiml suffered from a weak heart, ah ‘ attack if svneope had overtaken her ; ami laucocl the fall.. Her will,; ’published iter, increased the general interest in'her case, as her entire fortune'of .everal million kronen was devoted ,;o humanitarian purposes. Among die bequests was otic of £40,000 for providing stipends for poor students, i'lio affair took a sensational turn when a labourer in the Sommering ![strict, named Heinrich Schrcckl, •onfossad to the police that lie murlored Frau Weber. In the man’s possession was her purse, containing several of her rings. He related that he had buried her money near the place of her death, where he had mot ner, and, after the exchange of some words, had strangled her and thrown her down the precipice.