MURDERER ESCAPES
Killed a Police Sergeant
PSEUDO-CHEMIST’S FRAUD
(Rec. May 6, 9 p.m.)
Berlin, May 6.
The North Sea coastal States have been notified to look out for a murderer who daringly escaped from Germany in his own motor-yacht. The fugitive is Frederick Jonas, a plumber, who had been posing as Count Hohenau, a famous Americo-German chemist, and had extracted big sums from the public, pretending that he had invented a method for the cheap manufacture of hydrogen from water. Though arrested for fraud, Jonas was allowed to continue his experiments at a factory at Malchow. For this purpose he motored from gaol daily, escorted by an elderly sergeant. One day, when the car came to take Jonas and the sergeant back to the prison the sergeant was found murdered with a crowbar. Jonas taxied to the mouth of the Elbe, where he put to sea in his waiting motor-yacht.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 9
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