RATHENAU TRIAL
A JUNKER SCHOOL. FOR. YOUTHFUL MURDERERS. [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] BERLIN, October 11. Remarkable o'Jmme was given at the Rathenau murder trial. j It disclosed the existence of an academy, attended mainly by boys between tbirtC’Cn and sixteen years of age with, the avowed objecr ol cultivating the spirit of Imperialism and Prussianisni, as u counterblast to the Boy Scout Patrons. Ono produce thereof nas a schoolboy, named Stubenrauck, who designed the first plan of Rathenan’s murder, which was not followed. He coolly informed the Court that he had judged Rathenau to be. a danger to the country, in consequence of the Rapallo treaty, and he arrange* 1 with Gunther, one of the accused, to murder Rathenau, at a supper party given by a prominent industrialist, but as Gunther failed to keep a promise to provide him with a revolver he said the friendship cooled. Stubenrauck's evidence was a mass of political trivialities. He stated that he was allowed to remain at his public school, after proceedings against him were decided in his favour.
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Grey River Argus, 13 October 1922, Page 8
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177RATHENAU TRIAL Grey River Argus, 13 October 1922, Page 8
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