MONEY SMUGGLERS
SENTENCES IN GERMANY
BISHOP AND ASSOCIATES
(Received November 25, 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN. November 24.
Doctor Peter Legge, Bishop of Meissen, was fined £8000 for violating the currency law by smuggling out money from Germany. Of the total fine £3200 was remitted owing to the months during which he was awaiting trial. If the remainder is not paid he will be imprisoned for three months.
The Bishop's brother Theodore was sentenced to five years' penal servitude and was fined £5600 for complicity.
Dr. Soppa, the Bishop's Vicar General, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and was fined £.5600.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 11
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