A COUNT ON HIS TRIAL
GETS BREAD AND WATER FOR INSULTING JUDGES.
By Telegraph—Preaa Association —Copyright.
(Received October 12, 0.5 a.m.) BERLIN, October 11,
The trial of Count Wolff-Metternich, on a charge of alleged card swindling, is now in progress, and has been characterised by scenes. The accused was sentenced to 48 hours’ bread and water for charging the judges with partiality. The medical evidence showed that the prisoner was mentally stunted.' Other testimony stated that his conduct was largely due to squalid family wrangles.
Count Wolff-Metternich. nephew of the Gorman Ambassador in London was arrested in December in connection with alleged card-swindling, and in April last was sent, to a hospital with a view to ascertaining his mental condition.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7929, 12 October 1911, Page 7
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