ATTEMPTED MURDER.
ASSAULT ON GERMAN MINISTER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Dec. 5. Two ex-officers, Hustert and Ohlochlaer, are being charged at Leipzig with the attempted murder of Herr Schiedemann, a former Chancellor. They calmly told the judge that they thought it a good joke to play cards to determine which should kill him. Hustert lost. The men watched Schiedemann’s house at Kassel for six weeks. They followed Herr 'Schiedemann when he was walking with his daughter and Hustert threw prussic acid in his face.
Hustert and Ohlochlager admitted that they were members of a gang of conspirators, of whom Ehrhardt is loader, but refused to say by whom the gang was financed. They stated that the syringe with which they squirted acid in Schiedemann’s face was given them by an unknown Hungarian, who said he was most successful in killing undesirable Jews. They admitted that the only reason for attempting to kill Schiedemann was that he was the cause of the revolution and of Germany’s downfall.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6
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