Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-05-07 | Page 18 | Quadruple Assassin Betrayed by Miner

POM ASSASSIN ! Germany's Most Bloodthirsty Criminal Boasts of Crime3 V7hile Drinking; With Host. . KILLED BY THE GENDAEMES Murderer Dies in Preference to Surrendering- and Going to the Guillotine. BY MALCOLM CLAES. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN. May 6. Chance bullets, a few of several hundred Sred at him. hs put an end to one of the worst criminals in police annals. Ho had killed four men In less than a month. On the night of March 15 a watchman was shot at the Bismarck mino by a thief. A workman namtfi Kowoll fell under suspicion, and when ho was seen a fortnight later at the Laura colliery a policeman attempted to arrest him. But by using his revolver and at the cost of a second victim he escaoed. Meanwhile Mean-while a reward had been offered for his capture, and when he appeared at Josef-dorf Josef-dorf a locksmith made a brave attempt to win this prize. But he. too. was shot dead. 4 Kowoll then went to Slemlanowltch to bid cood-bve to a woman friend, but he was observed and followed and ultimately a body, of police and gendarmes brought him to bay. As soon as he realized the situation he whipped out his weapon and blazed away. A sergeant, father of eight children, fell dead before his unerring un-erring aim. and In the confusion Kowoll managed to escape. v Kowoll had by now nicked up an old comrade named Walerus. and later the same evening the pair knocked at the door of a mlnr In Rossbers and asked for shelter. The collier appears to have welcomed his unwonted society, for he not only admitted the strancers. but sent out for liquor, and the three had e carouse. As he advanced In intoxication Kowoll became communicative and Informed his host that he was a fugitive from Justice and the assassin of four men. Then he brandished his revolver and declared that ho would defend his freedom to the death. The miner encouraeed his two visitors In their potations and at last had the satisfaction of seelnc them both, collapse onto the floor In a drunken slumber. He then went and roused the chief official. A force of eight sendarir.es was dls-natched dls-natched to the house in the hope of catching the two ruffians In a stat of incapability, but as the firs: of them was ascending the stairs Walerus flung himself him-self upon him and fastened his teeth In his flesh. The official was. however, able to fire his revolver and wound his antagonist, an-tagonist, who then relaxed his hold. Kowoll had meanwhile opened a brisk Are from a window, and Walerus speedily speed-ily Joined him. in spite of his wound. Soon afterward Kowoll was dead with a half dozen bullets in hi body, while Walerus. though still alive., had received several further wounds, to which he succumbed suc-cumbed next morning.