TIED TO RAILWAY LINE
POLICE INSPECTOR’S ORDEAL. GERMANS’ COLD-BLOODED ACT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 14, 11.5 a.m A * PARIS, June'l3. A Mayence message states that Police Inspector Munchy, when walking on the arilway near Dortmund, was attacked and overpowered by five men and then tied to the track. The assailants declared that they wished to punish him tor his activities against the' Westfalen Reubund (a Nationalist organisation"). They placed the victim’s watch near his head and brutally told him that he could check the time of the arrival oE the train which would crush him. Munchy. by a tremendous struggle, managed to drag himself into the middle of the line, and so the express passed over him without injuring him. German workmen at daybreak found him unconscious.—Reuter".
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 June 1924, Page 11
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128TIED TO RAILWAY LINE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 June 1924, Page 11
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