AN EPILEPTIC'S CRIME.
MURDER OF A SCHOOLBOY. By Telegraph—Pres9 Association—Copyright (Reo. September 25, 0.10 a.m.) Berlin, September 24. Josoph llitter has been sentenced to five yoars' imprisonment on a charge of tho murder of a schoolboy. The Judge stated that the prisoner was_ an epileptic, but must bo held responsible for tho murdor, which was duo to a sudden access of fury owing to a threat of blackmail.
On May 15 Joseph Eitter, a man servant, was arrested in connection with the finding of mutilated parts of tho body of a schoolboy named/ Otto Klaolm. Tho remains wero hidden away in various parts of tho Potsdam railway station. Eitter confessed that ho enticcd tho boy' from his master's house, and demanded money under threats of strangling him.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1864, 25 September 1913, Page 7
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127AN EPILEPTIC'S CRIME. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1864, 25 September 1913, Page 7
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