BERLIN MURDER.
SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. TOOLS OF MONARCHISTS. AMAZING REVELATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, June 29. It is officially stated that the murderers of Dr. Rathenau are named Techow, a Berlin student, Fischer, a Saxon, and Knaar, of Mecklenburg. Altogether 80 arrests have been made, all members of a Monarchist organisation. They include Techow’s brother, a student, aged 21, who, it is Relieved, drove the murderers’ motor-car. Guenther, another student, is allegedly the chief conspirator, who worked out the details of the murder, and Schutt, of Berlin, from whose garage the assassins obtained the motor-car. Received June 30, 8.20 p.m. Berlin, June 29. Techow, Fischer and Kauer have been arrested for the assassination of Dr. Ratbenau. The first napied has been identified as the driver of the motor-car. Several members of an organised gang of conspirators have also been arrested on charges of complicity, including von Killinger, who was acquitted on a charge of aiding Herr Erzberger’s murder. MONARCHIST ORGANISATION. SECRET OF OTHER MURDERS. PROMINENT MEN| CONCERNED. Received June 30, 8.20 p.m. London, June 29. The Daily Express’ Berlin correspondent says Techow, Fischer and Kauer are members of the notorious Monarchist organisation Consul, and formerly belonged to the Ehrhardt Brigade. They confessed not only to the murders of Dr. Rathenau and Herr Erzberger, but also regarding the inner workings of the Consul. Facts relating to a hundred political murders committed since 1919, and hitherto a complete mystery, are now fully known to the police. Startling revelations regarding intimate relations between Ludendorff, Helfferich, von Jagow, Count Westarp (leader of the Prussian Conservatives), and the murderers of Dr. Rathenau, are disclosed by the arrest of a student named Guenther, who, it is alleged, secured the motor-car for Dr. Rathenau’s assailants. It is understood that Ludendorff, Helfferich and Westarp, hearing of the arrests, are contemplating flight.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1922, Page 5
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