KILLED IN MOTOR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 22, 5 November 1938, Page 5

KILLED IN MOTOR

TWO GERMAN PROSECUTORS. DAY OF COMMUNIST TRAIL. ANOTHER LAWYER INJURED. (United Press Association-—Copyright.) (Received. This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that the day after the People’s Court sentenced four Communists for high treason, Drs. Parey and Ceibel, the two Prosecutors, were killed in a motor crash on the Berlim-Hanover Road, while the woman driver of another car, also Dr. Parisius, who obtained the death sentence on Van Der Lubbe at the trial concerning the Reichstag fire, was injured.

The cause of the accident apparently was a stationary lorry, the driver of which failed to switch on the lights. The trial resulted in Peter Kaspar being sentenced to decapitation, August Hirsch to twelve years’ imprisonment, Johannes Schneider to five years, and Otto Sauter to two years. The evidence stated that accused sought to obtain military secrets from soldiers for the information of the Soviet. They conspired to arrange for a mob to march on Berlin on a fixed day, armed with weapons stolen from the barracks, create a panic, and facilitate a popular, rising, accompanied by factory explosions, sabotage, and sti'ikes.

The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that the former Communist leader, Ernst Thaelmann, who was imprisoned without trial for 5£ years, will work as gardener with 30 other prisoners on an estate near Hanover. Thaelmann’s health is reported to bo good.