BUKOW MURDERS
A CLEVER CRIMINAL
HOODWINKING THE POIJCE.
(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) BERLIN. January 13.
The fame of the man Stermickel, alias Schoene, who has b"en arrested in connection with the -Bukow murders, in eluding the police is almost legendary in Germany, and is more remarkable because there is no mystery regarding his identity or appearance. A world-wide search was made for him in connection with the Silesian murder, and yet Stermickel worked at various places near Berlin, and cultivated rather than shunned the police. .He was twice arrested.' hut escaped, by hoodwinking his captors. ' Accomplices state that Stermickel planned to rob his master, assuring them that no violence would he used. They left without knowing that their victims were dead. S-Cirmickel picked a. quarrel with his victims in succession, and threw a noose over their beads and quickly strangled them. He intended, to burn thfl house in which the girls were locked.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 January 1913, Page 5
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154BUKOW MURDERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 January 1913, Page 5
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