BURNED CAR CASE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 133, 18 March 1931, Page 5

BURNED CAR CASE

GERMAN ROADSIDE TRAGEDY.

ALLEGED INSURANCE SWINDLE. WIFE PROVIDES A CLUE. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) BERLIN, March 17. A case paralleling that of Alfred Rouse has begun at Helensburg. The police found on the roadside a burned car, in which was a charred body that was identified and buried as that of Eric Tetzner, whose life was insured for £2OOO. The police, becoming suspicious, watched Tetzner's wife and overheard her telephoning to Strashurg, where they found and arrested Tetzner. . Tetzner at first confessed that he picked up a tramp, knocked him insensible with a spanner, and set fire to the ear. Later Tetzner pleaded that be accidentally ran oyer and killed the tramp. He then conceived the idea of an insurance swindle. At his trial to-day, accused persisted that his latter story was true, but the police unearthed" a witness named Ortner, who on November 26 accepted Tetzner's invitation to have a ride. He was attacked with a spanner, but escaped. . Fran Tetzner is charged with aiding and abetting her husband.