WAR DOCUMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 214, 10 September 1931, Page 7

WAR DOCUMENT.

[■Effort to Sell Nurse Cavell

Record Card.

I GERMAN OFFICIAL FINED.

(" Times " Cables.) j LONDON, September 9. ' The • Berlin correspondent of "The Times" srys Christian Burger, who was a clerk in the office of the German Governor at Brussels when Nurse Caveil was executed, has been deprived of onetenth of a -year's pay for offering to the ! British Museum the record .card on which particulars of Nurse Cavell are entered. The museum authorities had refused to pay £12,500, which Burger had demanded. Burger left a portfolio containing correspondence in a train, and it was handed to the authorities, -who charged Burger with trying to sell war •documents to a foreign Power. The' Court said it was beneath the dignity of a State officer to make money in such a manner. The record card has been placed in a German war museum. AN ANGELt—BUT WICKED. SEQUEL TO ] POISON DEATH. LONDON, September 4. "Aldous was an enthusiastic distributor of' cyanide of potassium," said the coroner, summing up at the double inquest on Mrs. Cracknell, wife of a London policeman, and her lover, named Aldous, a commercial traveller. Mrs. Hose Patrick, a widow, gave evidence .that, from 1926 until May 9 last, she lived with Aldous, who had promised to marry her. He threatened to poison himself on her doorstep after she had put him out. He always carried cyanide. She had once, replaced it with sugar, .which Aldous unwittingly carried for two years. Aldous had sent her a letter after, the affair of Mrs; Cracknell, declaring his innocence. The letter contained cyanide. She and her. relatives had given Aldous £300. • : Mrs. Patrick added: "I think the poor boy's brain went. He was an angel in many points, yet wicked, with it." Aldotis' father ■ said, ,in evidence, that Aldous had not lived with his wife for many years. A verdict' was returned of suicide while, of unsound mind in. the case of Mrs. Cracknell, and of felo de se in the case of . Aldous. Mrs. Cracknell conimitted suicide. When the inquest was opened, Cracknell said he arrived home early from night duty and found Aldous. under his wife's bed. He thrashed Aldous, who threatened to prosecute him for assault. Cracknell went to the police station to report the matter. When he. returned home his wife was dead, having taken poison. She left a letter saying that Aldous had given her the poison to take. Aldous was found shot dead in Paddington, London, on August 16.