INNOCENCE PROVED
AFTER 39 YEARS' IMPRISON-
MENT. REAL MURDERER CONFESSES. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) Berlin, February 2. A terrible judicial error has just been revealed in Saxony. A youth named Theermann was convicted on circumstantial evidence on a charge of murdering a woman in the village of Prosa, in 1891, and was sentenced to hard labour for life. The real murderer has now confessed and Theermann has been released, grey-haired and prematurely aged by his terrible experience.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3262, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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79INNOCENCE PROVED King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3262, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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