CALLOUS MAN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 July 1925, Page 7

CALLOUS MAN.

MURDERS EIGHT PEOPLE. DRAMATIC SCENES AT TRIAL, BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT BERLIN, July 7. Dramatic scenes marked the opening of the trial of Angerstein, the manager of a large quarrying company, who is charged with murdering eight persons in a lonely villa near Siegen, in Westphalia, last December. The victims were Angerstein’s wife, his mother-in-law, sister-in-law, a maid servant, two gardeners, and two clerks. Angerstein calmly described how he stabbed some of the victims and chased and killed the others with a chopper. He admitted that he had lived happily with his wife. Counsel read a letter written by the wife before her death : “Make a grave for me in some quiet spot with a place for you beside me, and when I am gone, love her still who wa s true to you til! death.” There was scarcely a dry eye jn courtafter the letter had been read, but Angerstein listened unmoved. Asked whether his wife said anything before she died, Angerstein replied: “Not while I was stabbing her; but previously, when I approached her bed "with a revolver, she. exclaimed, ‘Father, forgive him,’ and then fell back fainting.” The hearing was adjourned.