GERMAN IMPOSTOR.
MAKES A DARING ESCAPE. MURDERED IN MOTOR-YACHT. (United Press Association—Copyright) BERLIN, May 6. North Sea coastal States have been notißed to look out for a murderer who daringly escaped from Germany in lus own motor-yacht. # The fugitive is Frederick Jonas, a plumber, who has been posing as Count Hohenau, the famous AmencoGerman chemist, and extracted big iums from the public by pretending that he had invented a method for the cheap manufacture of hydrogen from ■ Though arrested for fraud, Jonas was allowed to continue Ins experiments at a factory at Malchow For this purpose he motored from the gaol dailvf escorted by an elderly sergeant. One dav the car came to take Jonas the sergeant back to the prison when the sergeant was found to luue been murdered with a crowbar. Jonas taxied to the mouth of the g whence he put to sea in the waiting motor-yacht. ■■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 174, 7 May 1931, Page 5
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