THE GREED OF GOLD.
A DEGENERATE’S TRIPLE MURDER.
Berlin, May 7
Extraordinary scenes occurred at the trial of Trenkler for murder. Crowds of fashionable women flocked to the court.
Trenkler, who is in an advanced stage of consumption and is dying, was a pitiable figure. Despite the presence of paper parcels containing the skulls of his victims, he narrated how he felled the jeweller’s wife and was escaping when the girl entered and clung to him until he felled her with a jemmy. He was driven to the murders by an irresistible longing for gold and jewels. An attack of hemorrhage necessitated an adjournment of the trial.
Trenkler, a locksmith, confessed to the triple murder of a jeweller, his wife and daughter on January 18.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 122, 8 May 1912, Page 5
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