APPALLING CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 5

APPALLING CASE.

DEPIIAVITY IN GERMAN YOUTH.

GIRL WITNESS’S FRIVOLOUS INDIFFERENCE.

PUBLIC STAGGERED AT REVELATION'S.

(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Aust. and N.Z. Press Assn.) (Received Feb. 13, 8.55 p.m v BERLIN, Feb. 13. Tlic revelations in the Kranz .cake continue to appal the public. The frivolous indifference and . the brazen mendacity with which the girl Hildergardc Seheiler answered questions of vice, the Prefect of Police regard as most shocking, when it is remembered that her Brother and her boy lover were killed practically in her presence. The girl’s callousness is .partly explained in the discovery made by a policewoman who went to the Sciieller home to inquire regarding Hildegarde’s antecedents. She found the girl’s father Dent over the table, bis head in bis bands. He was not bowed down by grief, however, but was solving a crossword puzzle. Elinor lUtti, a girl friend of Hildegardo Sciieller, who visited the house on the night of the murders, was ruthlessly cross-examined when she attempted to exonerate Franz at the expense of Seheiler.

ivnmz. a schoolboy, aged eighteen, is charged with murdering a hoy friend, Sciieller, whose house he was visiting on the night oi the tragedy, others present being a third schoolboy Stephan, and Scheller’s sister Hildegarde aged sixteen, the girl’s parents being absent. The boys sat up at night drinking liqueurs, and talking of love. The discussion Anally turned on death ad Seheiler proposed that all four should die. He wrote a letter to the universe beginning: “Dear universe, a single portion of your organisation perishes. Dornt worry. Time will roll on.” The letter ended with an intimation that Stephan and Hildegarde would be killed, 'and the others would commit suicide. With a smile, Kranz states Seheiler shot Stephan and committed suicide, and he was about to commit suicide himself when the girl snatched the revolver. Some of the evidence suggested that Stephan, being found in the Hildegarde’s bedroom, precipitated the tragedy.