INSURANCE MURDER
ANOTHER GERMAN CASE
MILKMAN THE VICTIM
BERLIN, 22nd March.
Another case, ' strikingly akin to those of Tetzner and Rouse, was revealed at the hearing of a charge of murder in the Prussian town of Barten'stein against a furniture : merchant, Fritz Saffran, his secretary, Ella Augustin, and a clerk, Kippnich. The prosecution states that Saffran insured his life for £7000. He and | Kippnich then drove about the coun-; try, seeking a victim to murder in order that the body might be mistaken . for Saffran's. One man escaped them, but later they stopped a cycling milkman, shot him, and drove the body to their warehouse They placed Saffran's keys, cuff links, and ringa in tho dead man's pockets, saturated the corpse with petrol, and set firo to it. Saffran fled to Berlin, and the body was buried as his. Tho money was paid over to the secretary. Later, when Saffran was going to Hamburg to embark for South America, ft guard recognised him and informed the police.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 9
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167INSURANCE MURDER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 9
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