Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-31 | Page 1 | Frenzied Soldier Strews Town with Dead and Dying

t c i p F WITH DEAD AND DV DYING NG Fires Fr m Window lUlls Kills Four Men and Wounds Six Others BERNE BERN Switzerland Aug 31 A A fr fran fren n. n Swiss soldier Johann Schwartz ran amuck last evening and transformed the little town of RomAnshorn on Lake Like Constance Con Con- stance Jn into a miniature battlefield strewn with dying The soldier la ii x native of the town Ina In In Ina a fit t of madness he seized his his hla rifle rUle anc and shot every every one within range rang e of the windows windows windows windows' win win- dows dows' dows of oc his house killing kUling four and i iI wounding six men in a afew few moments He I then barricaded himself in his home When night fell tell tho the house was waa surrounded surrounded sur sum rounded by police and citizens among whom an hour or so eo later a panic broke out when when- they heard heard- a. a shot The bottler be- be era under the Impression that thai Schwartz had come among among- them them- started firing and shot ahot one another down until a dozen of them lILY lay badly wounded on the ground und During the scare the mad soldier es escaped es- es from his house houle and fled tIed to the forest for tor- est eat where ho he Is still at large and armed