BRUTAL MURDER
A GERMAN DESPERADO. LONDON, May 12. A sixteen-yearold youth, Ernst Waldow, has confessed to the brutal murder of an aged couple for whom he had done odd jobs, says the Berlin correspondent of “The Times.” Entering the lious e with an axe, Waldow made a violent attack on the woman and killed her. He then attacked the husband arid felled him with a blow which killed him. When confronted with his accomplices, Waldow admitted that they had planned to waylay a film actress, Miss Lillian Harvey, armed with revolvers. They had made a sketch plan of her house and had fixed a robbery for the evening of the day on which the double murder was committed. Instead of carrying this plan out Waldow sought refuge in a youths’ hostel, where he was arrested. Miss Harvey states that, as she always keeps a loaded revolver handy, the young bandits would have "had a surprise.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320526.2.70
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155BRUTAL MURDER Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in