ANOTHER ROUSE CASE
IN PRUSSIA. t United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] BERLIN, March 22. Another case strikingly akin to those of Tetzner and Roust 1 lias been revoale at the hearing of a charge of murder in the Prussian town of B'artenstein against a furniture merchant named Fritz Saflirnn, his secortary named Ella Augustin, and his clerk named Kippineh. The prosecution stated that Sail ran insured his life for seven tliousanu sterling. He and Kippineh then drove about the country stroking for a victim to murder in order that his body might lit' mistaken for Salfran’s. One man escaped them. ,bpi later they stopped a cycling milkman and shot him. They drove his body to the warehouse where they placed Sail’rail’s keys, cuff links, and rings in his pockets. Then they saturated the whole with petrol and set it. afire. Saffrnn fled to Berlin, ihe body was burned. As his money was paid over to his secretary later, Salfran was going to Hamburg in order to embark- for South America when a guard recognised him and iiifonmxf the police.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1931, Page 6
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