GERMAN SPY SHOT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 20 August 1915, Page 7

GERMAN SPY SHOT.

Muller, the Gorman spy, was shot at the Tower of London on Wednesday. June 2d. After his appeal against the sentence was dismissed on Monday, Muller was taken back to Brixton Prison, and on Tuesday was handed over to the military authorities and removed under armed escort to the Tower of London. He was watched throughout the nigth by a guard of the H.A.C., and shortly before six o’clock on Wednesday morning was taken to the miniature rifle range in the moat of the Tower. The firing party consisted of eight picked marksmen. At the word of command the eight soi'diers fired. It sounded like one report, and Muller was certified by the medical officer present to be dead. The body was afterwards taken to a cemetery in North London and buried in unconsecratcd ground. Muller was one of a trio, Muller, Kuepferle, and Hahn, arrested in April on charges of communicating to the enemy by messages written in invisible ink. Kuepferle, it will be remembered, committed suicide in his cell) during his trial at the Old Bailey. ,