BLACK REICHSWEHR
TRIALS FOR MURDER SENTENCE OF COURT "Times" ('allies. (Ucceived 7th May, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, OTIt May. "The Times" Berlin correspondent reports that the Stettin Court, passing judgment on tho Black Rcichswchr trial, sentenced Heine and S. Ottow to fifteen years' and four years' imprisonment respectively for manslaughter, and Frabcl to three years' for complicity. :*. The Court found that Schmidt's comrades in the Rossbach Corps executed him for suspected treachery without particular brutality. The cudgel blows rained on a dying man were inspired by a desire to shorten his sufferings. Rossbachers Were justified in believing themselves soldiers. The crime, though bordering on murder, was inspired by patriotic motives; therefore, tho accused were not deprived of their civic rights. Rossbachcr spectators cheered the verdict and presented a bouquet to Ottow. Tho Nationalist Press pictures the accused as martyrs f&r the Fatherland.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 11
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