GENERAL SUMMARY. Wholesale Murders. GHASTLY DISCOVERY MADE IN THE CELLAR OF A HOTEL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1918, 21 October 1884, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY. Wholesale Murders. GHASTLY DISCOVERY MADE IN THE CELLAR OF A HOTEL.

Nkw Yokk, September 20. A special London cable to the Sun of the 10th mst. says : The Prussian police believe that Amenc.i is harbouring a wholesabs murderer whose many crimes have just come to light. His name is Sievert, and he was, until recently, the proprietor of a public-house known as the Cruche Hotel, at Rurzig, in Pomerania. He is a shoemaker by trade, and a tall muscular man with a florid complexion and yellow hair. A few weeks ago Sievert sold out the hotel and left Pomerania. The new landlord took possession recently, and on searching the premises was horrified by finding six corpses, in various stages of decomposition, concealed in the cellar. The bodies were all of men, and they had evidently been murdered at different timfe^. They have been identified as the remains of travelling merchants who had been ( stopping temporarily in Sievert's taveijn, and had mysteriously disappeared. They lived at various remote parts of the kingdom, and hitherto there has been no clue to the fate of any of them. It is evident that they were murdered for their money by Sievert, and concealed in -the cellar until the assassin became alarmed and sold the place, stipulating that the purchaser should not take possession until a certain time. The police claim to have positive information that Sievert fled to America, and detectives have been sent to search fur him.