Andreas Schlatter

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Andreas Schlatter (called Schafberg-Resli , * 1814 ; † February 15, 1861 ) was a farmer from Signau in the Swiss canton of Bern , who died as a victim of murder .

Circumstances and murder

Schlatter was single and was considered an outsider and stingy. The Wysslers, a family distantly related to him, moved in with him. Jakob Wyssler was a day laborer and affected by poverty. Schlatter almost never shared his supplies with them and threatened criminal charges in the event of theft on his property, including timber crime in his forest.

The married couple Jakob and Verena Wyssler expressed their solidarity with the neighboring farmer Jakob Stucki and his servant Samuel Krähenbühl against Schlatter and for a long time had a murder plan. On February 15, 1861, they consumed schnapps to get some courage. Stucki had already bought rat poison on behalf of Wysslers earlier, but the attempt to poison Schlatter did not succeed. This time he lent his servant an iron rod, and he agreed to carry out the murder. After an exchange of words about a wood theft, Krähenbühl hit the farmer until he collapsed bleeding. But the supposed dead man was standing upright in the stable when Wyssler and Krähenbühl went to see him afterwards. The farmhand hit the farmer again. They then carried their victim onto the horse-drawn vehicle and threw it down. With this procedure they wanted to arouse the belief that Schlatter had fallen out of inattention. Because he was still alive, Mrs. Wyssler finished the rest - with her husband's shoemaker's hammer .

consequences

The forensic medical examination showed that Schlatter's skull roof had broken into more than 60 pieces. So it was clear that it was a murder and not an accident. The murderous quartet came under suspicion, partly because Samuel Krähenbühl his at the local police Heimatschein wanted to pick. They were tried on June 13 and 14, 1861. The jury sentenced them all to death. They were on July 8 after them at 4 am in the Official House of Langnau im Emmental , had been read the judgment by the executioner Franz Josef Mengis in Ramserengraben executed .

Literary processing

In August 2017, Limmat Verlag published the detective novel “Keinen Seufzerwert”, in which the author Barbara Lutz - based on historical sources - processed the murder case in literary terms. In 2018, the author of this novel was awarded a CHF 10,000 literary prize for outstanding work by the Canton of Bern .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Lutz : Not worth a sigh , Limmat Verlag, 2017 ( ISBN 3857918381 ).
  2. ^ Canton of Bern awards six literary prizes. On: erz.be.ch from May 31, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schlatter, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schafberg-Resli, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss farmer and murder victim
DATE OF BIRTH 1814
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1861