GERMAN SENSATION.

Grey River Argus, 20 January 1922, Page 5

GERMAN SENSATION.

ARISTOCRATS ON TRIAL. FOR ATTEMPTING MURDER. [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Rec. January 19, at 7.25 p.m.) BERLIN, January 18. A sensational trial is proceeding at Gorlitz, in Silesia. The accused are Countess Schlieffer, one of the oldest noble families in Prussia, a tall, beautiful woman, aged 50; her sons Hanz and Siegfried, typical Prussian noblemen; along with four others. Tifey are accused of attempting to murder Count Schlieffer, a multi-millionaire, the head of the family, and his sickly son George. The Countess and her sons were miserably poor. They hired Bruno Resell, a vilage grocer, and Bruno Grosser, a locksmith, to assist in murdering the Counts Wilhelm and George. There was a sensation in the Court when Hanz, evidently in order to shield his mother, confessed to the •rime, and said he had promised to pay Rosell £5OOO directly he inherited Hie Schlieffer estates. He stated that he and Rosell had devised several plans, including the use of dynamite, to blow up the Schlieffer Castle, and also the hiring of forty Communists to massacre the uncle and cousin. An accomplice revealed the plot. When Rosell was arrested, there was enough dynamite upon him to wreck a train.