MURDER AND ARSON.
GERMAN OFFICIAL'S CRIMES. THE DEATH SENTENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. London, September 3. M. Becker, Ex-Chancellor of the German Legation at Santiago, has been found guilty of murder, arson, falsification of accounts, and swindling, and sentenced to death. FOUND IN THE RUINS. A cable on February 16 stated that Becker, who was first reported to have been murdered and Inter was arrested on a charge of embezzling £1000, declares that he killed the porter, whose body was found amid the ruins of the chancellory, in self-defence. The indications showed that the porter had been stabbed before the fire, which destroyed the building. It was at first supposed that lie had been concerned in causing the tire and had absconded. It was alleged that with a view to compelling the conclusion that the porter's body was his own, Becker extracted two teeth from the mouth of the corpse.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14158, 6 September 1909, Page 5
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