ERZBERGER'S ASSAILANT
GERMAN ENSIGN SENTENCED,
(OHITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIKIdHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOC7 VTION.)
(Received February 24, 8.45 a.m.;
BERLIN, 23rd February.
Ensign Hirscheld has been sentenced to thirty months imprisonment for shooting at Herr Erzberger. The defence called doctors to show that Erzberger's wound was slight,' but that exaggerated accounts were given to the newspapers. - [Erzber.ger was shot at- when leaving the Criminal Court, in Berlin, on 26th January. The shot became embedded in the shoulder, but the. Wound was not serious._ Erzberger was attending the Court in connection with an action against Helfferich (eX-Minister of Finance), who -had accused' him of making a fortune out of the war.[ ■■•■"'" " """
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1920, Page 7
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110ERZBERGER'S ASSAILANT Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1920, Page 7
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