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MURDER UNDER HYPNOTISM.

GERMAN ARCHITECT ACCUSED. GIRL KILLS COUSIN AND SELF. Peter Grupen, the central figure in a sensational German murder case, is accused having, through hypnotic influence, induced his stepdaughter, Ursula Schade, to shoot his niece, Dorothy Rohtbeek, and herself.

Ursula wrote a letter, which it is now alleged she did under hypnotic influence, in which she confesses “that she has the intention of murdering her cousin, and that she has stolen her stepfather’s revolver for the purpose.” Grupen is accused of attempting to gain possession of his niece’s inheritance, amounting to 2,000,000 gold marks. The circumstances leading up to the murder trial which has suddenly brought the little south German town of Hirschberg into national prominence, are full of mystery.

Grupen’s niece, Dorothy Rohtbeek, a sixteen-year-old orphan, was the sole heir to the large estate of Kleppelsdorf, and a huge fortune. Gru- ■ pen, an architect by profession, is a man of fine appearance, who lost his left arm in the war. He already had been suspected of having been responsible for the disappearance of his wife, although he declared that '.-he had gone to America. Investigations made in connection with the present murder ease have resulted in Grupen being charged with having tried to poison his murdered niece’s grandmother, Frau Eckhardt, because the latter was to be the heir to the girl’s fortune. Last February, a few days before the murder, Grupen, Frau Ackhardt, Grupen’s two stepdaughters, Ursula and Irma Schade, aged twelve and nine respectively, and a maid servant with whom Grupen is accused a]so of having been intimate, all went to visit Kleppelsdorf. The object of Grupen’s visit was to demand that his niece marry him. The murder took place after she had rejected his proposal. The trial in progress in Hirschberg is particularly interesting because of the presence of Professor Moll; of Berlin, and other experts, who are expected to confirm the charge that Grupen used hypnotic influence on his stepdaughter, Ursula, and finally induced her to commit the mysterious murder and suicide. Grupen flatly denied all these charges.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2395, 21 February 1922, Page 1

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MURDER UNDER HYPNOTISM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2395, 21 February 1922, Page 1

MURDER UNDER HYPNOTISM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2395, 21 February 1922, Page 1

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