GREENSTONE SCHOOL EXAMINATION.

Kumara Times, Issue 2355, 15 March 1884, Page 3

GREENSTONE SCHOOL EXAMINATION.

[to the editor.] Sir—l see by the annual report of j the Kuruara School Committee, that the Greenstone School was credited with two failures at the last annual examination, which is a mistake, as there was only one. By correcting the above you will oblige.—Yours, &c, C. J. Patrick, Teacher Greenstone School. Greenstone, March 10, 1884. MURDER OF FOUR SERVANT GIRLS. The Vienna police have arrested Hugh Schenk, son of a Silesian judge, who is accused of murdering four servant girls. He is said to have lived comfortably of late years upon the savings of servants whom he enticed away from Vienna, promising to marry them, and whom it is alleged ho murdered in out-of-the-way places. Last August a cook was missed, but uofc until her savings at the bank had been called for. She was known to have left Vienna with a young man on a pleasure trip. Last month two giils informed the

police that their sister and aunt, both having savings exceeding 1000 florins, had left Vienna with one Schenk, an engineer, who had promised to marry her sister, Josephine Timal, but that neither of the women had been heard of since their departure in May. Ifc was found that their books had been presented at the savings bank by an official of the Western Railway named Schenk, who was known to have often called himself the servant of Hugh Schenk, who was really his brother. The latter was traced to Linz, but had left his lodgings, which were searched, and in which more property belonging to the women who had gone away with him was found. On Wednesday night he was traced to Vienna to the house of a friend, v.nd arrested in bed. He showed excessive terror, and had to be helped down stairs. His brother was also arrested. The circumstances of the disappearance of the two women, and that of the cook who was missed in August, as also that of another servant, missed in 1879, are identical; so that ifc is supposed that all four murders may be attributed to Schenk. He is said to have tried the same plan with several other girls who entrnsted part of their savings to him. It is alleged that he has been two years in prison for swindling a servant of her savings. He has been married four years. His wife is ignorant of his crimes. The bodies of three of the supposed victims were found at different times in different places. That of the cook, missed since last August, was not found.