DECREE OF DEATH.
German Murderer Receives Sentence. " BLAZING CAR " CASE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, March/ 18. The death sentence has been passed on Eric Tetzner, who was found, guilty of murdering a tramp by burning him to death in a motor car to gam £7000 insurance on his own life. Tetzner was also given a twelve years' sentence for the attempted mrurder of another tramp, Ortner, who had escaped an attack in November. Tetzner's wife was sentenced to four years for complicity in the fraud by identifying the burned remains as those of her husband. It was revealed that the accused man, who was a commercial traveller, previously managed to insure his mother-in-law's life for £500 a month before her death from cancer. The prosecution submitted that the man's easy success in that case had induced him to commit the second crime.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 7
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