JOY IN KILLING.
Tense interest was aroused by the trial in Berlin of a feeble, sickly young man, Karl Boettcher, on a charge of murdering the Countess Lamsdorff, a refuge from the Bolshevik terror in Russia, in a wood near Potsdam.
A curious fact was that Boettcher, who had a tiger's joy in killing, loved birds and petted and tended them with the greatest care when living with his mother. Countess Lamsdorff, as her brothc stated in court, was a strong, vigorous woman of forty, who could have defended herself against this youth if he had been unarmed. That she fought when attacked was clear, for it was found that her nails were broken in the struggle. She was shot, and the murderer's defence was that the revolver went off accidentally, although when arrested he confessed that he shot the countess.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 23
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JOY IN KILLING.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 23
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