GERMAN CRIME
MOTOR-CAR EPISODE. (United Press Association. —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. The “Times” Berlin correspondent states the police, finding on a country road near Regensburg, a deserted burned motor-car ■in which there was a man’s charred body, assumed it was an accident. They identified the owner of the car through its number plate. The wife claimed to recognize the body as her husband and took it to Leipzig for burial, but the police becoming suspicious watched the wife and caught her telephoning to her husband at Strassbourg, where he was arrested. It is alleged he confessed to having murdered an unknown man on the public highway and then set fire to the car with the body inside, after which he went to Strassbourg. It is further alleged the crime was committed to enable the wife to secure the -husband's life insurance amounting to (£7,250.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 5
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152GERMAN CRIME Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 5
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