MURDERED JEWS
Light Sentences Imposed LIECHTENSTEIN OUTRAGE (Received June 9,10.30 p.m.) Berlin, June 9. At Vaduz, in the Republic of Liechtenstein, the trial was held in connection with the death of the brothers Alfred and Fritz Rotter, who met their deaths at the hands of gunmen. Herr Schaedler, the proprietor of the hotel to which the Rotters were lured, was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Three other accused men were .sentenced to only a few months. At Gaslei, in the Republic of Liechtenstein, the brothers Alfred and Fritz Rotter, formerly leading theatre managers jn Berlin, were walking with Alfred’s wife and Frau Wolf when seven young gunmen stopped them and tried to drag them into a waiting motor-car. Alfred and the women struggled free and jumped down a ravine. Frau Wolf was found injured, the other two dead. In the meantime the kidnappers secured 4 Fri:z and drove furiously toward the Austrian Tyrol. Fritz at Tricsenberg leapt from the car and fractured his skull. The police stooped the car in the Tyrol and arrested the occupants, who were placed in gaol at Feldkirch.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 11
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