Kissed Lover, Then Stabbed German Girl Takes Revenge

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 18

Kissed Lover, Then Stabbed German Girl Takes Revenge

KATCHEN, a little girl o£ 20 with ; golden hair, sobbed so miserably in a Beriln court recently that the judge said to her kindly, “You need not be frightened, we are not going to cut off your head!” Had Katdhen thrust the nasty-look-ing kitchen knife a little deeper into the chest of Herr Jenaerich than she did he would have died, and the judge would have had the right to have her head cut off, according to German custom. As it was, Herr Jenaerich, a bookkeeper with a salary of £l2 10s a month, recovered from the stab with the nasty-looking kitchen knife after a pretty bad time in hospital. He looked fit enough when he stood up in the court to say that he had never promised to marry his litle friend Katchen. “It w'as like this,” said Katchen, who is in the hairdressing profession: “We got to know each other in a coffee-house and used to go out twice a w'eek. “Thy Margot” "Then he went away, and when he came back showed me a new cigar-ette-case on which were engraved the words, ‘Thy Margot’—so I knew that there was another girl in his life, and

when I went home with him and ha told me that he did not intend to marry me I was -very much She was, indeed, so much upset that she thought she hac. better M herself —and so she bought the nasty looking knife. . She took it with her when she went with Herr Jenaerich to Schiller far* for a last talk. When they were right away in a little thicket she sam that she wanted him to .kiss her the last time. So he took her m arms and she rammed the nasty-loos ing kitchen knife into his chest. “I only wanted to give you something to think about,” she wrote to him when he was in hospital. Kind Judge Naturally, what with Katchen's sobs and her pretty goldhen hair, eve . body in court tried to be nice to n • Even the Public Prosecutor said ne was sure what she had done was J - on the spur of the moment and wnen she was feeling dreadfully tressed. ..Three So the kind judge said. uuree weeks’ imprisonment —the sentence be served if you are called upon t do so within the next three year • And Katchen dried her eyes aim left the court.