NOT GUILTY
INNOCENT MAN'S SENTENCE. FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, March 18. A man named Joseph Schmal was sentenced in 1095 to imprisonment for life for murdering a woman. Throughout lie protested his innocence, and addressed hundreds of appeals to tho authorities. Yesterday the real murderer, on his death-bed, confessed his guilt. Schmal was immediately informed, hut was seized with a heart atlnek and died owing to shock, Ilis last words were a prayer in tho prison hospital: " Dear Lord, for twenty-six years I, though innocent, suffered tho hoil of penal servitude. Thou wilt reward mo in Thy Kingdom eternallv."—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 4
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109NOT GUILTY Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 4
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