INNOCENT MAN'S ORDEAL.
SIX YEARS IN PRISON AS A CONVICT. ] A terrible instance of the miscar- j iriage of justice has just come to light at Berlin. Nearly six years ago a wealthy landowner named Herman Liechten- I stein, of Pastenburg, Prussia, was i charged with setting his house on tore with the object ot defrauding an insurance company. H*is wife was , also charged with aiding and abetting iiim. Both strenuously protested their innocence, but they were found The man was sentenced to six years' penal servitude, and the woman to two years' penal servitude. The man's sentence would have expired in August. A peasant named Henry Meyer has confessed, however, that he set fire to the house and deliberately allowed Liechtenstein and his wife to be condemned, as he had ! a grudge against them. Liechtenstein's immeJiate release has been ordered, but he is completely broken by six years of convict life. Mme. Liechtenstein, who was released four years ago has suffered severely owing to a boycott imposed by her neighbours, Who insulted and mocked her.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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176INNOCENT MAN'S ORDEAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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