A GERMAN SENSATION.
Berlin, March 8
Mueller, an ex-teacher, was sentenced to death at Bayreuth In November for the murder of Bertha Wuenschelmeyer, aged eleven years, who was the prisoner’s pupil, and whose body, after lying in his bedroom all night, was buried in a wood next morning. Mueller is now undergoing trial for the murder of a widow named Enders.
When sentence was pronounced in November, the Judge had the widow’s skull laid on a table, and summoned prisoner to swear on it that he was innocent. Mueller broke down and confessed he was guilty. He has now repudiated the confession, saying he made it in the hope that he would be sent to an asylum.
In making the repudiation he has revealed his sanity.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 12 March 1907, Page 3
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126A GERMAN SENSATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 12 March 1907, Page 3
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