UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 5

UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT.

IN GERMAN MURDER. MYSTERY A POLITICAL ASPECT.

3Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BERLIN, Aug. 5. There was an- unexpected development in the Helling easeThe police took Schroeder back to his shabby room and reconstructed the crime. They then read his letters written. from- tlia gaol to his fiancee, in which he told her wliat to say if questioned by the police. Finally 'Schroeder broke- down and confessed that lie killed Helling because- he needed' money. The judge still refuses to release Dr Haas, who is supposed! to- have sub-, orned Schoeder to murder bis chief cashier, Hormaun Helling. The- case has developed into a political situation.

Newspapers- are devoting pages to the ease, which lias become an astonishing -battle between the Alonarchists and the Republicans, with an- infusion of Jew.-,baiting recalling the, 'Dreyfus affair..

Before the investigation of Helling’s death had gone far it was revealed that Schroeder, who was Haas’ chief accuser, is a member of secret Nationalist societies, including the wellknown -Steel Helmet Corps. Instantly the Nationalist- press mobilised against the wealthy Jew. The police judge was so generous to Schroeder that the Prussian Ministry of Justice suspended the local police on the ground of incompetence, and sent commissioners to inquire into tlie attitude.of Judge Koeling, who was obviously against' Haas. The arrest of Schroeder’s fiancee was due to the Prussian State Attornev.