DARING ESCAPE

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 7

DARING ESCAPE

Suspected Murderer Gets Away In Motor Yacht. FRAUDULENT EXPERIMENTS. BERLIN, May 6. The North Sea coastal States have been notified to look out for a murderer who made a daring escape from Germany in hie own motor: yacht. The fugitive' is Frederich Jonas, a plumber, who had been posing as Count Hohenau, a famous ' American-German chemist. He extracted large sums from the public by pretending that he had invented a method fdr the cheap manufacture of hydrogen from water. Although he was arrested on a charge, of fraud Jonas was allowed to continue his experiments at a factory at Malchow. For this purpose he motored from prjson daily, escorted by an elderly sergeant. One day the car came to take Jonas and the sergeant back to prison, when the sergeant was found to have been murdered with a crowbar, Jonas went in a taxicar to the mouth of the Elbe, Whence he put to sea in hie waiting motor yacht.

NO PERMIT. LANG SPEECH IN BRISBANE. (Received 12.30 .p.m.J BRISBANE, this day. A request made on behalf of the New South Wales Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang, by Mr. J. S. Garden and a Mr. Martin for permission to hold a public meeting in the Brisbane Town Hall, has been refused by the authorities. The application will be renewed when the new City Council takes office next week.