BERLIN APPALLED

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 10

BERLIN APPALLED

AT REVELATIONS IN KRANZ CASE CALLOUS GIRL WITNESS (Rec. February 13, 8.55 p.m.) Berlin, February 13. Revelations in the case of Kranz, the schoolboy charged with murdering a boy friend, continue to appal the public, The frivolous indifference and brazen mendacity with which Hildegarde Scheller answered the questions of the vice-prefect of police are regarded as most shocking when it is remembered that her brother and her boy lover were killed practically in her presence. The girl’s callousness stands partly explained in the light of the discovery made by a policewoman who went to the Scheller home to inquire regarding Hildegarde’s antecedents. She found the girl’s father bent over a table with Jiis head in his hands, He was not bowed down by grief, however, but was solving a crossword puzzle Elinor Rattij a girl friend of Hildegarde, who visited the house on the night of the murders, was ruthlessly cross-examined when she attempted to exonerate Kranz at the expense of Scheller,