PRISONERS RELEASED
ON FORGED ORDERS (By Electric Telegraph. Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association., "LONDON, Nov. 21. A Cologne correspondent states that the French general court-martials ended the operations of what is known as the ‘escaping company,” consisting of eight German partners. Each was sentencod in absentia to 20 years’ bard labour and fined 3000 marks. It appears that a prisoner in Witt loch prison stole an official order of release for a. pardoned man, and gave the document to a Wiesbaden woman, who founded the “escaping company.” Facsimiles of the order were manufactured and official stamps and signatures forged. The “company,” with these, procured the release of a large number of prisoners, including dangerous criminals, from Wittleeh during the past two years.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 November 1922, Page 3
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122PRISONERS RELEASED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 November 1922, Page 3
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