WEALTHY CRIMINAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 7

WEALTHY CRIMINAL

MURDERS POLICE GUARD ESCAPE IN OWN YACHT [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BERLIN, May 6. The North Sea coastal States have been notified to look out for a murderer, who daringly escaped from Germany in his own motor yacht. The fugitive is Frederick Jonas, a plumber, who has been posing as Count Hotenan, the famous American German chemist, and has extracted big sums from the public by pretending that he has invented a method for the cheap manufacture of hydrogen from water. Though arrested for fraud, Jonas was allowed ,to continue his experiments at a factory at Malchow and for this purpose, he motored from the gaol daily escorted by an elderly Sergeant. One day the car came to take'Jonas and the Sergeant back to prison, when the Sergeant was found, murdered with a crowbar. Jonas taxied to the mouth of the Elbe, whence he put to sea in his own waiting motor yacht. hanging angKY fathers ; PARIS, May 6. • J The police are seeking a man who hanged his eighteen-year-old daughter, in the presence of her mother-in-law, because she married contrary to his wishes. Profiting by the absence of her husband on military service, the father invited her to stay at her old home at Clermontferrand. Suddenly at a lonely spot, he tied- a rope to her neck, and hanged her from a ■ tree. When she was dead, he dragged the body to another tree, and re-hanged her - == .