MOTOR BANDITS
* INSTANT EXECUTION CARRIED OUT. Hans Hahn, a 19-ycar-old Berlin motor bandit, was beheaded by the axe in the Ploetzensee Prison on November 24 for the murder of a taxicab driver. Hahn went to the block only ten hours after his trial. Late the previous evening the special .court which deals only with gangsters found him guilty of murder and passed the death sentence. Hahn was the first man to be executed under a decree against car bandits and gangsters which was promulgated three days before his execution. There was no right of appeal. It was on October 12 that Hahn shot dead a taxicab driver in a lonely road in Wannatt, near Potsdam. He was arrested a few days later. The decree tightening the law against car bandits and gangsters was issued in consequence of an alarming increase in crimes of violence in Germany. Prisoners may be brought before the court in 24 hours and punished immediately.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1938, Page 9
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