GERMAN NEWS
MURDERS FRIEND. BERLIN, Feh. 9. The ease of Kranz, the schoolboy charged with murdering a hoy friend, recalling the Leopold Loeb case in Chicago, has caused a sensation in Berlin. It will form a standard document for an historian on social life since the war in Germany, particularly as regards the con sequences of precocity of youth playing on passions, which he is unable to control. Leading sociologists. doctors, authors, lawyers and prolessors are present at the trial, analysing the psychology ol the drama. Kranz, aged IS, was a scholarship winner. His eliict reading since he was arrested, lias been Nietzsche, SchoPenliaur and Dostoievsky. Kranz was visiting the house of a schoolboy friend, Scheller. cm the night of the tragedy, others present being a third schoolboy, named Stephen. and Scheller’s : i r. Hildegarcl. aged sixteen, the pi I’ parents being absent. The hoys s; i up all night drinking liqueurs and talking of love. The discussion finally turned on death and Scheller proposed that all four should die. He w rote a led ter to the 1 universe beginning: “Dear Ini verse, a single' portion of your organism perishes. Don’t worry, time will roll on.” The letter ended with an intimation that Stephen and Hildegarcl would he killed and the. others commit suicide. With a smile Frank states that Sc-hel-ler shot Stephen and committed suicide himself when the girl snatched the revolver. Some of the evidence suggested that Stephen being found in Hildegnrd’s bedroom precipitated the tragedy. There is also evidence that some of the hoys belonged to a juvenile club, statutes of which they were strictly enjoined that all members who were deceived by men or women friends must avenge themseHos upon their rivals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1928, Page 3
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