SENSATIONAL PLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1922, Page 5

SENSATIONAL PLOT.

SCHEME TO MURDER COUNT. NOBLE FAMILY CHARGED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. Received Jan. 19, 7.25 p.m. Berlin, Jan. 18. A sensational trial is proceeding at Gorlitz, Silesia. Countess Schlieffer, one of the oldest noble families of Prussia, a tall and beautiful woman, aged fifty, her sons Hanz and Siegfried, typical Prussian noblemen, with -four others are accused of attempting to murder Count Wilhelm Schlieffer, a multi-mil-lionaire and head of the family, and his sickly son George. The Countess and her sons were miserably poor. They hired Bruno Rosell, a village grocer, and Bruno Grosser, a locksmith, to assist in murdering Count Wilhelm and George. There ,was a sensation in Court when Hanz, evidently in order to shield hip mother, confessed to the crime and said he promised to pay Rosell £oooo directly he inherited the Schlieffer estates. He, stated he and Rosell devised several plans, including the use of dynamite to blow up Schlieffer Castle, and the hiring of forty Communists to massacre his uncle and his cousin. An accomplice revealed the plot. When Rosell was arrested there was enough dynamite upon him to wreck a train.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.