AUSTRIAN MURDER
FUNERAL OF SCHUMEIR. (Received February 18, 1 a.m.) VIENNA, February 17. There were half a million people at M. Schumeir’s funeral. The wreaths filled seventeen carriages. A man named Kunschak, an iron worker, and a supposed brother of the leader of the Christian Socialists, followed M. Schumeir, the Socialist leader, who was assassinated in a Vienna railway station, from a meeting, and shot him in the ear with a pistol. He admitted that his object was revenge, and declared, that he had been boycotted, and was unable to get work, owing to his from the Socialist organisation on suspicion that he was securing the arrest of workmen.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 8
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109AUSTRIAN MURDER New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 8
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