AFP via Getty Imagesīoth were found guilty of murder in the first degree and locked up in Bali’s Kerobokan prison, with Schaefer sentenced to 18 years and Heather to 10. REUTERS Heather and boyfriend Tommy Schaefer. Heather is scheduled for early prison release in October. Heather Mack has not yet decided if she will bring daughter Stella back to the US in October or leave the 6-year-old with a foster family in Bali. After the cabdriver alerted police, the couple was arrested at a budget hotel a few miles away. He and Heather, then 18, stuffed the body into a suitcase, loaded the bloody bag into a taxi, and fled the scene. Schaefer, then 21, bludgeoned Sheila to death with a metal fruit bowl in a room at Bali’s five-star St. The two were convicted by an Indonesian court of killing Mack’s mother, Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, in August 2014. Stella was born in prison during the sensational trial of her parents, Mack and Tommy Schaefer, in March 2015. “I’m scared that if she comes back to the States with me, she will be exposed to what happened.” But I’m nervous for Stella,” Mack exclusively told The Post. I’m not worried about the idea that people cannot understand the tragedy for my sake. “I am fearful and nervous of returning to Chicago. “Suitcase Killer” Heather Mack is about to be released from prison - and she’s scared. ‘Suitcase killer’ arrested by FBI on murder conspiracy charges upon arrival homeįreed ‘Suitcase Killer’ Heather Mack reveals post-jail plans ‘Suitcase Killer’ Heather Mack reveals she will plead guilty to mom’s murder “He was wildly jealous of the British, wanting to be British, wanting to be better at being British than the British were, while at the same time hating them and resenting them.‘Suitcase Killer’ pleads guilty to conspiracy in socialite mom’s murder One historian said: “The half-German side of him was at war with the half-English side. Wilhelm, who was Queen Victoria’s grandson, alienated Britain with his naval expansion, aggressive colonial policy and support for the Boers in their fight against the British. "Ilfracombe at this time was a premier resort and all sorts of well-to-do people would visit.”Īlf, who died in 1923, told friends his greatest achievement was inflicting a bloody nose on the Kaiser. "He and his family were well known in the town and Alf was certainly known after the incident on the beach. Sara Hodson museum manager, said: “Alf grew up to make his money from Rapparee Beach, renting out beach huts just like his parents had done. They reportedly paid Alf “30 bob” - equal to £150 today - to keep quiet about the encounter. He then punched Wilhelm on the nose before the Prince’s entourage broke up the fight. The young man who was to rule as German Emperor then branded Alf a “peasant” and ordered him to back down.īut Alf replied saying: “I don’t care a dash who you are - stop chucking stones or it will be the worse for you.” The pair had rowed after Wilhelm, 19, threw stones at beach huts on Rapparee beach in Ilfracombe in August 1878.īeach attendant Alf ordered Wilhelm to stop misbehaving. The poem describes how Wilhelm vowed revenge saying: “Mine friend! You’ll rue this day / For what you’ve done t’mine poor nose.” “And then he bashed ’n in his eye, upon me word he did.” It was called “Why the Kaiser Hates England. In 1916, at the height of the conflict, Devon poet WH Coates wrote a poem about the scrap which was circulated among British soldiers to boost morale. The seeds of the First World War could have been sewn not by European rivalries - but by a punch on a Devon beach.Īlf Price was 16 when he gave the future German emperor a bloody nose in an encounter that’s been all but forgotten.īut the humbling of the future Kaiser Wilhelm II by a younger Englishman has been blamed by historians for fuelling his hatred of the British - and making him eager to go to war.Īnd now rare photos of Alf have been unearthed in archives set to go on display at Ilfracombe Museum to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of Britain’s conflict with Germany in August 1914.
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