SHOT HIS FATHER
SILESIAN COUNT’S NEGLIGENCE. NINE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph— Copyright.) Berlin, May 27. Count Stolberg Weringerode has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for criminal negligence in shooting his father. Despite the verdict the Count announces his engagement to the wealthy Countess Anrieliese von Rothkirchtrach. Count Eberhard Stolberg Weringerode, one of the most notable of the Silesian aristocracy, was found shot dead in his library at Janowitz Castle on March 26, 1929. His son (Count Christian) was found in the courtyard apparently unconscious. He said he had been attacked by burglars. The doctors found no sign of injuries on the son. There was later a dramatic development in the arrest of Count Christian, who said he was cleaning a rifle which went off, and the bullet entered his father’s head,
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Southland Times, Issue 21095, 29 May 1930, Page 7
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134SHOT HIS FATHER Southland Times, Issue 21095, 29 May 1930, Page 7
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