WRONGFULLY ACCUSED
LIFE SENTENCE FOR MU,IOER
REAL CULPRIT CONFESSES HIS GUILT. INNOCENT MAN DIES OF SHOOK. By Telegraph,—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 19, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 18. A man named Joseph Schmal was stntenced to life imprisonment in 1895 for murdering a woman. Throughout he protested his innocence, and addressed hundreds of appeals to the authorities. Yesterday the real murderer, on his death-bed, ’ confessed liis ' guilt. Schmal was immediately informed, but was seized with heart attack and died owing to shock. His last words were (uttered in the prison hospital): “Dear Lord, for 26 years I, though innocent, suffered the hell of penal servitude. Thou wilt reward mo in Thy kingdom eternally.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11163, 20 March 1922, Page 6
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