MURDER ON HIGHWAY
GERMAN INSURANCE FRAUD. (Times Cables.) (Received December 7, 11 a.m.l LONDON, December 6. ' The “Times’s” Berlin correspondent states: The police, finding on the country road, near Regensburg, a deserted burned motor car, in which there was a man’s charred body, assumed it was an accident. They identified the owner of the car through its number plate. The wife claimed to recognise the body as that of her husband and took it to Leipzig for burial, but the police, becoming suspicious, watched the wife and caught her telephoning to her husßand at Strasbourg, where he was arrested. It is alleged that, he confessed to having murdered an unknown man on the public highway, then set fire to the car, with the body inside, after which he went to Strasbourg. It is further alleged that the crime was committed to enable the wife to secure the husband’s life insurance, amounting to £725.0.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1929, Page 7
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