Kills 3, Wounds 17, In A Classroom.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 21, 1913:
Lunatic Had Been Rejected as a Teacher in a Bremen School.
HE HAD TEN REVOLVERS
Captured by Infuriated Crowd and Beaten Into Insensibility — More Deaths Expected.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BREMEN, June 20.— An armed lunatic entered St. Mary's Catholic School just before noon to-day, and met a teacher, Marie Poul, in the corridor. He immediately fired his automatic pistol at her. The shot missed, whereupon the man flung open the door of a class room in which were sixty-five girls, 6 and 7 years old. He raised his pistol and fired repeatedly at the children, who were sitting at their desks. Some of the little ones, screaming with terror, scrambled toward the teacher's desk, while others rushed to the windows.
    A janitor dashed up when he heard the shots. The murderer met him at the door of the class room and shot him through the cheek; then, firing one more shot at the children and their teacher, he ran, shouting, to the window, where he fired upon some boys who were playing in the yard, hitting five. A male teacher, Herbert Moellmann, then tried to seize the maniac from behind, but, instead of gripping him low, jumped at his neck. The murderer swung around and discharged a shot into the teacher's stomach. Moellmann fell to the ground in a dying condition.
    Screaming, the maniac then made a dash through the corridor for the street. Passers-by immediately took up the chase and caught him. When they learned what he had done they battered him into insensibility. He was taken to the police station, where it was found that he had six revolvers besides the four he had emptied and 100 cartridges in his possession.
    His papers, which appear to be forged, bear the name of Erich Schmidt, aged 30, candidate for a gymnasium teachership.
    In the classroom, which presented the appearance of a shambles, three girls were found dead and ten others seriously wounded, three of whom are not expected to survive. Moellmann was taken to a hospital, dying, but it is believed that all the five boys hit will recover. A girl who made a dash for the door and threw herself down the steps fell so heavily that her neck was broken and death ensued.