BROKE HIS PAROLE
THE GERMAN STOWAWAY ON THE SONOMA. (Rec. March 18, 9 p.m.) Sydney, March 18. At the inquest on the German officer, Katzer, who stowed away on the San Francisco mail steamer Sonoma and succumbed to heat apoplexy in one of t'he lifeboats, the evidence showed that the deceased was a first lieutenant in the German Army Reserve. Ho and another German officer named von Specht, breaking their parole, escaped from the German concentration camp at Liverpool, aud Katzer obtained from a friend apass to go on board the Sonoma. The steamer was thoroughly searched in anticipation of escapees attempting to get on board, but nothing As discovered until Katzer's dying groans were heard. There was no evidence to show how Katzer came to be hidden in the boat, the cover of which had been laced down. A verdict of death, due to stowing away in an enclosed lifeboat, was returned. \ r ou Specht is still missing.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 5
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159BROKE HIS PAROLE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 5
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