THE SOCIALIST MURDERS IN VIENNA.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1389, 18 April 1884, Page 2

THE SOCIALIST MURDERS IN VIENNA.

EXTBAOBDINARY BEVELA- : - ••• ■ TIONS. •

Stellmacker, the murderer ffef' Detective Bloech, has now been fully indentified, and has at least made a .number of important confessions. He pleads guilty to fiie murder of Commissioner Hlubeck in Florid3dorf, in December last, and further alleges that tile robbery and murder at the money-changer Eisert's, some weeks ago, was also committed by the Socialist party of anarchy in order to procure money for agitation. The authorities have, therefore, secured the author of the most important outrages, but until they *hsg£u -b&ii able to arrest his accomplices nothing of all this is allowed .to be published in Austria. Stellmacher, who served in the Prussian Army, and later in the Saxon Contingent, was also at one time employed at Dresden as a clerk on the Stato railways; but his connection with the Socialists came to the ears of the Dredsen police, who received a warning from Switzerland that Stellmacher was implicated in the plot against the Emperor William. Hearing of this, he fled to Switzerland, first to Vives and then to Zurich, where ho propagated Host's ' Freiheit,' and a French revolutionary print. A search in his lodgings has brought to light a quantity of dynamite of the most dangerous composition, and a whole case of chopped lead to be used for filling bombs. When arrested after the murder at Floridsdorf he was at first

hauded over to the Korneuburg Court, Floridsdorf being within that district, and this Court for a time refused to deliver him up to the Vienna authorities until the police iv.ve.aled to them a plan on the part of the A narchists to force the Korneuburg Gaol in order to free the prisoner. Before and even after proclamation of the exceptional decrees threatening letters came by hundreds to almost every official of the central police in Vienna, to the President of the Court, and to all the Commissioners and detectives personally, telling them in a few words that they would be shot on the first opportunity. It was the receipt of these letters principally that led to the decrees, as a portion of the police force declared that they should quit the service if their powers were not increased. At the same time, dynamitecartridges were found in different quarters of Vienna, and the police received information of intended plots, not only against the central police office, but against the Criminal Court and other public buildings.