SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL.
A DYING CONSUMPTIVE'S .CRIMES. - (Press Association.—Copyright.) BERLIN, May 7. Extraordinary ec-enos were witnessed at the trial of Treukler. a locksmith, who confessed: to a triple ..murder in A jeweller's shop on January 18th. Fashionable women flocked the Court. Trenkler, who is in an advanced state of consumption, and is dying, presented a pitiable figure. Despite the presence of paper parcels containing the skulls of his victims, the accused narrated how he felled his wife, and was escaping when a girl entered. She clung to him until he felled her, with a- iemmy. He was driven to the murders by an irrestible longing for gold and jewels. An attack ,of hemorrhage necessitated | an adjournment of the hearing. I - ' —=
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 8 May 1912, Page 5
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