PROVED INNOCENT
ALLEGED MURDER CHARGE WEAPON FIRED BY SUN LONDON, March J After spending 20 years in a German prison after being convicted of a murder for which scientists have proved the sun to have been responsible, Wladvslaw Pawlowski, a Pole, has been released. Pawlowski in 1917 lived in the village of Weiherowo, then in German territory, and was sentenced to imprisonment. for life for the murder of a farmer, Benedict Schamm. Accused admitted that he had argued with Schamm on the night he was killed, and threatened him with a gun, and the judge hold that Pawlowski went back to the house and shot Schamm as he slept, with Schamm's gun. Recently warders found Pawlowski tearing at the bars of his cell, waving a newspaper and sobbing, "I have solved it." The newspaper contained a fire protection company's warning against the direct action ol: the sun's rays on explosives when intensified by broken glass. Tho theory was tested on Schamm's cottage, which was deserted in 1917 as it was believed to be haunted. A scientist. placed Schamm's gun so that the rays could pour in on to a powder-box. through a tiny flaw in the •window pane. The police waited and saw the gun go off, the charge perforating a dummy's head.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 12
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213PROVED INNOCENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 12
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