RHINE EVACUATION
Prisoners Sentenced By British
Released.
MURDERER OF N.Z. SOLDIER
LOXDOX, December 22. The ''Daily Mail" says that since the British Army left the Ehineland last week the Germans have released 10 men and women who were sentenced by British military Courts, including Franz Swoboda. who murdered the X'ew Zealand soldier Cyril Cromar at Cologne in February, 1910.
Swoboda was leader of a' gang that terrorised German women who were accompanying British soldiers. After shooting Cromar he escaped to unoccupied Germany, but returned to Cologne in 1925, and was arrested. His death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.
The majority of those liberated are girls who were sentenced for disobeying deportation orders.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 7
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