GERMAN TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1931, Page 5

GERMAN TRAGEDY

3 MURDERERS ARRESTED

COMM UNISTS R ETAL F ATE. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 11.15 a.m.) BERLIN, March 16. Jansen of Hamburg, who was expelled from the police force last year, owing to his Nationalist activities, and the clerk, Runnel, have surrendered themselves in accordance with the orders of Nazi leaders in connection with the shooting of Henning. The third mab. Hoeokmeyoi' of Munich was also arrested. All will be charged with murder. Communists declare the outrage was deliberately planned. Six Nazis, one in uniform, boarded the bus and fired fifteen shots. Four women and a child were wounded besides Henning’s compamion, who saved his life by shamming he was dead. The murderers stopped the vehicle, made an exist, cut tiic telephone wires and then decamped, leaving the injured on the roadside. Communists avenging the murder, this morning shot and wounded Nazis leaving Beer Hall. The authorities, to prevent rioting, suspended meetings and newspapers of both parties. , Popular indignation has been roused to fever boat. Hitler expelled the murderers from tihe party, but defrays their legal defence costs, on the ground that Communist propaganda infuriated them. Socialists moved in the Reichstag for the tightening up of legislation against political murders. BERLIN MURDER. BERLIN, March 16. Hennings murderers declare they mistook him for the Communist leader. Adi'o and shot him in a fit of rage. Follow passengers deny this, assorting the affair was obviously prearranged.