REMARKABLE CASE

Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 5

REMARKABLE CASE

CHARGE OF FRAUD AND SLANDER

MAN HACKS OFF OWN LEG

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, March 29,

The ‘Doily Mail’s’ Vienna correspondent reports a remarkable case, in which Emil March, fin engineer and inventor, who was earned into court on a stretcher, is charged with fraud and slander. Bis wife and his wife’s sister are similarly charged with fraud and slander, while a hospital attendant named Marz and his wife are charged wdth slander. The accusation is that Marek, after insuring himself for £BO,OOO against disablement with an .Auglo-Danubian Lloyd Company, deliberately hacked off his leg with an axe, and the other parsons charged assisted in carrying through the fraud. The evidence disclosed that Marek screametl while working a model on the terrace of bis handsome villa, near Vienna, where he was found with his leg almost severed at the knee. The company’s contention was that either Marek hacked his leg himself or someone assisted him. Consequently the company refused payment. Marek produced Marz and his wife to say that two surgeons wilfully slashed his amputated leg to give it the appearance of having been struck wdth an axe. Marz subsequently confessed that Marek had promised him £3OO to give false evidence about the manipulation of the amputated leg, which is missing. The case is unfinished.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.