FUGITIVE GERMAN.
MURDER OF A WARDER. ESCAPE IN OWN YACHT. (Received May 6, 8.25 p.m.) BERLIN. May 6. The North Sea coastal States have been notified io look out for a murderer who daringly escaped from Germany in his own motor-yacht. The fugitive is Frcderich Jonas, a plumber, who had been posing as Count Hohenau, a famous American Gorman chemist. He extracted large sums from the public by pretending that he had invented a method for the cheap manufacture of hydrogen from water. Although he svas arrested on a charge of fraud Jonas was allowed to continue his experiments at a factory at Malchow. For this purpose he motored from prison daily, escorted by an elderly sergeant. Oiio day tho car came to take Jonas and the sergeant back to prison, when the sergeant, was found to have been murdered with a crowbar. Jonas went in a taxicar to the mouth of the Elbe, whence he put to sea in his waiting motor-yacht.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 9
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FUGITIVE GERMAN.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 9
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