GERMAN BARON GOES TO GAOL
AFRICAN PERJURY CASE, By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. May S, 11.5 p.m.) Berlin, May 8. Advices from Windhoek, in Gorman South-west Africa, state that Baron Von Waechter, a Government official, has been sentenced to sixteen and a half months' imprisonment on a charge of perjury. He had denied the authorship of an anonymous letter produced during a trial of a journalist named Vonroy, who was convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Vonroy had brought certain .charges against the officials of the protectorate, and the handwriting experts pronounced the letters to bo Baron Von Waechter's. The prosecution suggested that they had been written with the object of diverting suspicion from himself.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 5
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116GERMAN BARON GOES TO GAOL Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 5
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