WITH DAGGER AND CORD.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 6 August 1917, Page 6

WITH DAGGER AND CORD.

THE MURDER OF ADMIRAL VON CAPELLE’S DAUGHTER

Tokyo. Dramatic details of the murder of Frau von Zaldern, the daughter of Admiral von Capeile, of the Imperial German navy, are published in the Japan Weekly Chronicle, of Kobe. Frau von Zaldern was the wife of a German naval lieutenant, who was interned at Fukuoka shortly after Japan entered the war. In order to be near her husband, she leased a villa at Minoshima, a s'uburb of Fukuoka, and it was there she was stabbed and strangled to death by a burglar in the morning of February 25. Her distracted husband hanged himsAf six days later, in the internment camp, after being permitted to visit the house and see his wife ’s body, Th e murderer, says the Kobe newspaper, was a baker named Tanaka Tokuichi, who has been arrested. According to Tokuichi’s confession, he broke into Frau von Zaldern’s house in ignorance that it was the residence of a foreigner. He was suddenly confronted by the woman, who threw a quilt over him and held him in a powerful grip. Unable to loose himself, he drew a dagger and stabbed through the quilt until Frau von Faldcrn let go. He then strangled her with an light cord.