ERZBERGER'S MURDER.
TEN SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
A SCRAP OF PAPER CLUE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Bept. 16. Altogether ten men, most of whom are ex-naval officers and students, have been arrested in Munich in connection with the murder of Herr Erzberger. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the men were discovered through a young girl seeing two youths who answered the description of the alleged murderers throw fragments of paper into a brook. There was a weir near by, and the sluices were opened and the brook drained. The paper was found and revealed the address of the men in Munich. Precautions to avoid arrest taken by leaders of the Kapp insurrection last year were described by the Chancellor, Dr. Wirth, in the Reichstag. He stated that detectives found they were sheltering near Munich in an entrenched position, protected by a strong guard of followers, even including Bavarian policemen. Anybody who approached the hid-* ing place was fired ou. The Chancellor alleged that the Kapp conspirators were unde? Bavarian, protection* j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17890, 19 September 1921, Page 5
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173ERZBERGER'S MURDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17890, 19 September 1921, Page 5
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