THE POLISH MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 201, 14 January 1913, Page 5

THE POLISH MURDER.

THE CRIMINAL ARRESTED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, January 12. The police have identified Sehoem Bueknow, the murderer, with a notorious criminal named Slermickel, and as bcinr wanted for murder in Silesia in 1005 also for a series of daring robberies, One of the accomplices of Buckow in the murders has confessed. A mob attacked and badly mauled Sehoene on the way to gaol. A DESPERATE CRIMINAL. FLAUNTING THE POLICE. Received 14. 12.40 a.m. 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 world-wide search was made for him in connection with a Silesian murder, yet Stermiekcl worked in various places near Berlin, am! cultivated rather than shunned the police. He was twice arrested, and escaped by hoodwinking his captors. His accomplices stated that Stermiekcl planned to rob his ma.stcr, assuring them that no violence would be used. They left without knowing that his victims were dead. Stermiekcl picked quarrels with his victims in succession, threw a noose over their heads, and quickly strangled them. He intended to burn the house in which the girls were locked. A cablegram dated January 0 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 when Buckow wa6 burning the bodies Ln a haystack. Buckow escaped. ' - , *■" '' - r~Tmn« .i_ n ■' ''"'•