BURNING CAR MURDER.
CRIME IN GERMANY.
SENTENCE OF DEATH.
BERLIN, March 18.
The death sentence has been passed on Eric Tetzner, who was found guilty of murdering a tramp by burning him to death in a motor-car, to recover £7OOO insurance on his own life. Tetzner was also sentenced to ment for 12 years for' the attempted murder of another tramp, Qrtner, who had escaped an attack in November, Tetzner's wifo was sentenced to four years for complicity in the fraud by identifying the burned remains as those of her husband.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20827, 20 March 1931, Page 11
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