WAR CRIMINALS
STENGEL ACQUITTED BY LEIPZIG COURT SENSATION CAUSED IN FRENCH CIRCLES By Te'.egrana—Press Association— Oonyrlcht Leipzig, July 7. Crusius was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty-nine months’imprisonment and deprived of his right to wear a uniform. Stengel was acquitted. The decisions have caused a sensation in French circles. A high judiciary who attended the trial described the sentence as scandalous, - Crusius was proved to have personally- wounded .. prisoners.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. fLieutenant-Colonel Stengel was charged bv the French with issuing an order to slaughter wounded and unwounded prisoners,, and Major Crusius was charged with shooting prisoners. Stengel, in evidence; denied killing prisoners, but admitted that he told the troops to deal ■with Frenchmen who pretended death and then fired on Germans from trees and the ground in the rear, but he never embodied the words in a formal order. A doctor gave evidence that he took charge of two wounded Frenchmen. A corporal told -him later that they had been shot by order-of Crusius.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 244, 9 July 1921, Page 7
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166WAR CRIMINALS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 244, 9 July 1921, Page 7
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