GERMAN JUNKER SPIRIT.
FAMILY'S PRIVATE WAR. NEIGHBOURHOOD TERRORISED. A. »nd N.Z- BERLIN. Feb. 17. The curious habits of a Junker family named Van Kahne were revealed in the Potsdam Court. The family, which congists of four person?, an old lady of 72, her son and daughter-in-law and their son, live in a castle commanding the southwestern approaches of Berlin. Motorists and pedestrians are obliged to pass through the park, and the Von Kahnes objected. They pounced upon wayfarers, holding them up at the revolver point. In one case the 72-year-old grandmother pursued a motor-car on horseback, firing an automatic revolver. She also sprayed passers with a garden hose. The son shot a man through the lung and left him lying in the snow. The family was fined an equivalent of £13. The defendants pleaded that it was a family tradition to carry revolvers and shoot when necessary. Villagers threaten to burn down the castle unless the shooting ceases.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 7
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158GERMAN JUNKER SPIRIT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 7
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