NECKLACE AND MOUSE
BARDH FINED FDR FRAUD LONDON, July 14. A remarkable trial was concluded at ■Wurzburg last week, when Baron Alexander Geichen-JRusswurm was touud guity of attempted fraud. Some time ago the baron sent a packet to a firm of jewellers in Munich, which was said to contain a pearl necklace, which ho had insured for 60,000 m (£3,250) with an insurance company in Cologne. Upon the packet being opened by the jeweller it was found to contain nothing but a dead mouse, and it was alleged by the prosecution that the baron hud enclosed a live mouse in the packet instead of the necklace, hoping that it would gnaw its way out while in the post, and that the necklace would thus be supposed to have been lost in transit. The baron indignantly asserted his innocence, and the defence called several psychological exports in an attempt to prove that the accused was the'victim of hallucinations, and not completely responsible for his actions. The court, however, declined to accept this plea, and sentenced him to a fine of 10,000 m (£500) , or one month in prison. ‘
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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187NECKLACE AND MOUSE Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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