Show GERMAN GARROTING GANG many ways have been resorted to to obtain money from people in in almost all circumstances the highs high warman demanded d money or life the assassins assassins took both life and money and frequently it has ila happened p that after taking the former they received but very little of the latter although they acquired it at such a fearful cost the love of money is ir the root of all evil und desperadoes and hardened criminals will dare anything to obtain it A new and most diabolical scheme has recently been exposed invented to extort money in germany Germa nj happily the villain whose devilish ill ingenuity planned and perfected the infernal machine has been detected abid hd arrested just in time to save his intended first victim the instrument is a new garrot ing machine and tho the inventor is is a man named hilkea locksmith who is only 28 years of age he lias has spent two years in its construction and it is made for the purpose of committing both robbery and murder the murderous instrument is described as tu something 10 like a pair of tongs or pincers fixed on the end of a ion long 11 iron tube with a winch at tile bottom by means of which the tongs could be made to close as tight as one liked the tile peculiar virtue of this nefarious invention was to consist in preventing the victim from crying for help by immediately depriving him of the power of utterance to make matters still surer wilke had also constructed ted two steel traps for the vie victims feet their method of operating was to hire a fur dished room and allure their victim to it one of them was to feign fein sickness and send for fora a physician the machine was to be concealed beneath the bed clothes As soon as the doctor appeared and bent over the bed to examine the patient an iron collar of peculiar contrivance was to be applied to his neck until they had extorted either cash or compelled him to sign a bill of exchange when the victim was to bo be the body thrown into a canal near by the house they were to occupy for carrying Z on their diabolical business in which three of them were engaged the trio had hired a room at no 59 elizabcth elizabeth ufer berlin near the kanai kanal which at this place is very wide their first victim was to be dr behrs who lived near by the night of the alt was appointed on which to commence operations but wilkes accomplices whose names are tire not given became conscience stricken they therefore presented themselves before the authorities of that cit city y and revealed to them the whole plot confessing their own connection with it policemen were at once sent to the house named where a trunk was found belonging b to wilke who pretended to be employed in one of the government offices the scoundrel was not in when the officers arrived arrive dl but they opened the trunk in which they found two mantraps man traps and all the component parts of the garroting parroting garro ting machine at after atter ter inspect inspecting ia these materials the box was closed and the landlady of tho the house was warne warned d to be reticent in relation to the visit of the officers an agreement was then come to between the police and wilkes two accomplices that the latter should at first assist their comrade in carrein carrying a g out his diabolical plan and only y turn around upon him when thelic tims life was in danger several cn constables stables were concealed in a neighboring room and at seven p in wilke appeared entered h his is bedroom bed room with his confederate to bed and sent forar for dr felirs instead of the latter a police came cam e in in disguise and inquired after wilkes health the ruffian at once sprang epand up and applied his pincers to the pseudo physicians neck the latter having managed to make wilke understand that he had very little money about him was requested to fill out a cheque on his refusal wilke turn edthe winch until the victim began to bo be afraid of his life and began stamping c on the ground this was the signal signa I for the accod elices to let the constables hands and for forthe the police to enter and seize the criminal in alig very act I c t dr C a raci member nbc of the prussian inn parliament was selected for the second victim and a MCM ber of the reichstag was to bo tho the third after liis his airest arrest and incarceration the villain pretended that lie only intended to entrap liis his victim for tha the purpose of extorting n all the money he lie could then nuke make his escape and leave the doctor to be released when lien his condition became known some of the would be ass assassins a friends have tried the guitrau insanity dodge in his favor but w without ith success and it is plainly intimated that should the scoundrel by any possibility escape condign punishment p punishment unish ment on oil a legal quibble judgment swift and sure mill will overtake him |