"TRUE TO THE END”
MURDERED WIFE’S LETTER HUSBAND UNMOVED. Australian and N. 7 Cable Association. BERLIN, July 7. Dramatic scenes marked the opening of the trial of Angerstein, who is charged with murdering eight persons . bis wife, his mother-in-law, his sister-in-law, a maid servant, two gardeners, and two clerks. Angerstein calmly described how he stabbed some of his victims, and chased and killed others with a chopper. He admitted that he had lived happily with his wife. Counsel read a letter written by tho wife before her death: “Make a grave for me in some quiet spot, with a place for you beside me, and when I am gone love her still who was true to you till death.” There was scarcely a dry eye in court after the letter had been read, but Angerstein listened unmoved . Asked whether his wife said anything before she died, Angerstein replied: “Not while I was stabbing her, hut previously, when 1 approached the bed with a revolver, she exclaimed, ‘Father, forgive him.’ Then she fell back fainting.” The hearing was adjourned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12185, 9 July 1925, Page 8
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