HIGH TREASON CHARGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 9

HIGH TREASON CHARGES.

BEHEADINGS IN GERMANY.

ONE MAN AN AMERICAN

BERLIN, June .4: Helmut Hirsch, an American Jew, who had beep mentioned in connection with a plot on Herr Hitler’s life, was beheaded.

A German, Oskar Denner, was also executed for high treason.

A Berlin cable on April 24 stated that, although Helmut Hirsch, a Jew, aged. 21, had confessed only to having planned to assassinate a high official, belore he was sentenced to death on a charge of high treason on March 8 for bringing explosives into Germany, he was thought in some quarters to have been connected \vr_n a plot against the life of Herr Hitler. The fact that the sentence on Hirsch was not announced -until March 20 was regarded as supporting this rumour. It was only then revealed that Hirsch was an American citizen. The American Consul visited him in prison and found him doubtful as to the success of his appeal for a commutation of the death penalty. He asked the Consul to tell his parents in Czechoslovakia that he was calmly awaiting his end. The American Government supported the plea for clemency.