LEIPZIG TRIAL

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 5

LEIPZIG TRIAL

PRESSMEN’S REPORT. (United Press Assojiatioi*—By Electric.Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON ,Sep. 27. The “Daily Express’s” Leipzig correspondent received special permission to visit Van der Lubbe in his cell. He reports: “In the court, he holds his hands though chained, but I saw him exercising in the yard, where he strode along swinging his arms like an.’ healthy man. Later, I saw a doctor strip.him. His skin is white and firm, with no signs of disease. His cell j? comfortable and roomy. The table is littered with illustrated magazines, but. he prefers to sit listless and silent, with bent head. He seem to have sworn himself to an obstructive semi-silence. My impression grows that Van der Lubbeis a sort of Caliban, sullen ar.d brutish, with streaks of idealism glimmering through the dark recesses of his primitive tortured mind.”

FURTHER EVIDENCE. (Received this day at 10 a.m.), LEIPZIG, September 27. According to the newspapers you spoke freely to visitors yesterday. Will you similarly answer the court to-day, the president asked Vauderlubbe, who mumbled “as usual.” A Swedish criminologist and a Dutch journalist testified to visits when he showed no sign of ill treatment. A policeman, TTeisig, in evidence, said Yanderlubbe originally freely confessed to three attempts a t incendiarism. AN HABITUAL LIAR. (Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN,* September 27.

At the Reichstag trial. Judge Vogt, who interrogated Vandorlnbbe at the preliminary inquiry testified he was a ready, if not an habitual liar. He willingly explained h : s part in the Reichstag fire and insisted he alone was responsible-.