RATHENAU MURDER
REMARKABLE.EVIDENCE AT TRIAL (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, Oct. 11. Remarkable evidence given at the Bathenau murder trial disclosed the existence of an academy attended main!ly by boys between thirteen and sixteen years of age, with the avowed object' of cultivating a spirit of imperialism and Prussianism as a counterblast to the Boy Scout patrols. One product thereof was a .schoolboy named Stubcnrauck, who designed the first plan cf RaUmnau's murder, •M-ich vas not followed. He coolly' informed the court that he had judged Rathenau a danger to the country in consequence of the "Rapallo Treaty, and arranged with Gunther, one of the accused, to murder Bathenau at a supper party given by prominent^industrialists; but as Gunther : failed to keep his promise to provide I him with a revolver he said his friendj ship bad cooled. Stubenrauck’s evidence was a mass of political trivialities._ He (stated that In? was allowed to remain at jlvis public school after the proceedings jagainst him were decided in hia favour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 October 1922, Page 5
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