A Desperado's Crime.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 122, 18 April 1884, Page 2

A Desperado's Crime.

Vienna'has just been the scene of all the crimes of,, the last few months. Oa January 2o another., was added to the list.' A detective' officer -named Block was shot dead at Floiisdorf, a manufacturing suburb of When observed, the Assassin made* oft and many persons purs'tied hira-ds- far jta the old 'bed of the Danube, which is shallow. Hejump^d^fromf stone to sCone across the water, and reached the opposite bank, where four laborers who had I watcheJ his flight, ran to.. stop him. The man pointed at them two revolvers, and .made two of the' laborers draw ■ back^ but the other tyro tbrew themselves upon him as he ■■fired; four shots. Two entered the body pf one of the party, who instantly fell ,<and' the man would haye^escaped, but he stumbled, and before he coulcl riste the, $hree men ptnnod . him i to the ground. He was | taken by . the police to the staI tionj and on the way took out his pocket handkerchief, from which he dropped a powerful dynamite cartridge, which f elFon the .soft ground. Had it exploded, a terrible catastrophe might have been the result. He refuses to answer. any questions. On him were found several dynamite cartridges, 100 aUed. revolve? cartridges oft the largest size, a bottle oft poison,, and a dagger* He also Wre a Take beard.^