DEATH FROM FEAR.
PRISONER DIES IN COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Jan. IG. Needless fear of death killed a prisoner at the Berlin Assizes. .Uoppe, a business man, was charged with murdering a woman. The jury gave its verdict in the prisoner’s absence, as is customary in Germany, but tioppe, listening at a cell wall, though he heard the foreman say “Guilty of murder.” When Hoppe was brought into court he was. pale and trembling. The judge said: “You have been found guilty.” Hoppe murmured “1 know,” and fell dead.
As a matter of fact the jury had only found him guilty of manslaughter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1922, Page 2
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104DEATH FROM FEAR. Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1922, Page 2
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