Talwin

Talwin was an Indonesian who stabbed a number of people, several of them fatally, with a kris, in Lawang, Indonesia on April 25, 1879, before being arrested.

Talwin went to the market with a kris and stabbed a number of people and, according to witnesses, several of them looked to be dead, and a high number had been also stabbed. During his capture he injured four policemen with a chair.

While in prison he claimed that he had committed many rapes and crimes on children. Though most of his claims could not be corroborated, he claimed that he raped four children inside of their house in 1875 and then stabbed a passerby. Two years later he said that he masturbated in front of a crowd of school students while on their lesson, in which caused his arrest. He said that this occurrence made him to be angry at society and promised to take revenge since.