GERMAN BUTCHER ON TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 5

GERMAN BUTCHER ON TRIAL

WIDESPREAD INTEREST. HAARMAN’S ANTECEDENTS, Press Association-Bj Telegraph-Copyright. BERLIN, December 5. Haarman whose trial at Hanover is attractin'? the attention of criminologists throughout the world, continues to mamtain an extraordinary attitude. Ho told the President of the Court. ■ to think murder is an easy matter It is not really a pleasure to kill people. You cannot imagine' how excited one becomes b °Haarmari again asked that the trial be as short as possible, so that ho f could “Join his dear mother m heaven before Christmas. , Haarman’s one dread appears to bo lest be be sent to an asylum instead of being beheaded. It appears that he was committed to an asylum when a boy, but succeeded in escaping, and since has lived his whole life among criminals ol the lowest class.—A. ana N.Z. Cable.

[Haamian is charged with murdering twenty-seven youths in 1918. At that time Haarman was a recruiting ag p nt for the Black Reichswohr. The youths were recruited for service in East Prussia, and no explanation was given of their nonreturn, but war operations were presumed to be the cause. Recently a number of skulls were found in tlm river near Hanrman’s house. The police searched and found bloodstained clothing. Haarman cut up the bodies in revolting circumstances.]