DARING ESCAPE
BY A MURDERER. tinned Press Association Rv Klei-tru Telegraph.—Copvright. ] BERLIN, May 6. Tlie North Sea coastal States have been notified to look out for a murderer, who daringly escaped from Germany in his own motor yacht. The fugitive is Frederick Jonas, a plumber, who has been posing as Count Hotenan, the famous Amerioan-Germran cheihist, and has extracted big sums front the public by pretending that he has invented a method for the cheap manufacture of hydrogen from water. Though arrested for fraud. Jonas was allowed to continue his experiments at it factory at Malchow and for this purpose, he motored from the gaol daily escorted by an elderly Sergeant. One day the car came to take Jonas and the .Sergeant back to the prison, when the Sergeant was found murdered with a crowbar. Jonas taxied to the mouth of the Elbe, whence lie put to sea in his own waiting motor yacht.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1931, Page 3
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154DARING ESCAPE Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1931, Page 3
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