ANXIOUS TO DIE.
MURDERER’S PLEA
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPT RIGHT BERLIN, Dec.. 5. ' The attention of criminologists throughout the world is being attracted by the trial at Hanover of Haarman, a butcher, oh a charge of murdering 27 ypuths in 1918. Haarman continues to maintain an extraordinary attitude. He said to the President of the Court: “You seem to think murder is an easy matter. It is not really a pleasure to kill people. You cannot imagine how excited one becomes sometimes.” Haarman again asked that the trial .be as short as possible, so that he could “join his dear mother in heaven” lie fore Christmas.
Hearman’s one dread appears to be lest he should be sent to an asylum instead c# being beheaded. It appears he was committed to an asylum when a boy, but succeeded in escaping, and since then has lived his whole life among criminals of the lowest class.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1924, Page 5
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153ANXIOUS TO DIE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1924, Page 5
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