BLOOD FOR BLOOD.
THE CONDEMNED MAN MARTEN,
By Telegraph—Press Associaiton—Copyright Berlin, Aug. 25. All the members of the Court-martial have petitioned the Kaiser to commute the death sentence passed on the sailor Marten for the murder of Krosigk. People in Germany are excited over the injustice, and what is regarded as a second Dreyfus case.
Yon Krosigk was a notorious martinet and bully. Many stories are told about his brutality. Unable to bear with his senseless severity any longer, a member or members of Von Krosigk’s company shot him. The men charged with the crime were acquitted, although everyone knew that Yon Krosigk was shot from the ranks of his own company. It was thought at the time of the acquittal that the War Office recognised with everyone else that
the man had but met with his deserts, and that it was pleased at a loophole of escape offering which would not injuriously affect the discipline of the army.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 197, 27 August 1901, Page 3
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