BUCKOW, THE CRIMINAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 14 January 1913, Page 5

BUCKOW, THE CRIMINAL.

FLAUNTING THE POLICE

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(United Press Association.) Berlin, January 13

Stermickel’s fame in eluding the police is almost legendary in Germany. This is the more remarkable because there is no mystery as to his identity or appearance. A worldwide search was made for him in connection with a Silesian murder, yet Stermickel worked in various places near Berlin, and cultivated rather than shunned the police. He was twice arrested, and escaped by hoodwinking his captors. His accomplices stated that Stermickel planned to rob his master, assuring them that no violence would be used. They left without knowing that his victims were dead. Stermickel picked quarrels with his victims in succession, threw a noose over their heads, and quick ly strangled them. He intended to burn the house in which the girls were locked.

The cablegram dated January S said:—A Polish stable hand named Buckow murdered a farmer, his wife, and a servant girl, and nailed up the house to prevent two daughters escaping. The police arrived whei Buckow' was burning the bodies in a haystack. Buckow escaped.