JUDGE’S LENIENCE.
WITH FIFTY-ONE COMMUNISTS. MURDER OF NA.ZI LEADER. (United Press Association—Copyjight). (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) BERLIN, January 26. Fifty-one Communists, including two women, were sentenced to terms ranging from nine months to 10 years for the murder of a Storm Troop leader, Hans Maikowski, and a policesergeant on January 30, 1932. Had the murders been committed half an hour later the accused would have been liable to death, as the decree regarding attackers of the Brown Shirts was proclaimed at inidnrgnt. Storm Troopers in Court demonstrated against the lenience of the sentence, and the judge ordered the gallery to be cleared. (
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 91, 27 January 1934, Page 5
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