THRILLING MAN HUNT
THOUSAND SEARCHERS. ARREST EVENTUALLY MADE. COMPLAINT OF STARVATION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 6, 9.10 a.m. BERLIN, Feb. 4. After long eluding 1000 searchers, the police and soldiers arrested Hein at Weingarten where he xvas discovered at an inn complaining that he xvas a starving man. The hunt xvas the most thrilling in German criminal history.—A. and N.Z. cable.
A polico detachment of the Reiclisxvehr formed a cordon round the xvood of Coburn in xvhich an armed criminal named Hein had taken refuge. Hein xvas suspected of robberies and four murders. A police sergeant xvho jumped off his bicycle and attempted to arrest him xvas shot through the head and Hein rode off on the bicycle. A second police officer overtook him and Hein took ambush in a ditch, exchanging a fusilado until his ammunition xvas exhausted. Hein, x\-ho xvas thought to be wounded, escaped. He and an accomplice raided a post office at Ohligs at Christmas time and shot txvo officials. His accomplice, Larm, was arrested. Hein afterxvards shot two policemen xvho xveie trying to arrest him, one fatally.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 58, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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