MEDIEVAL BRUTALITY
JUNKER SQUIRE’S CRUELTY. LENIENT VIEW OF OFFENCE. P*«w Association—By TsJe»wpfa—Copyright LONDON, March 30. The Daily Express’s Berlin correspondent reports that a case of medieval cruelty was disclosed during the prosecution of Friedrich Granhorst, a wealthy lord of the manor near Potsdam. He was charged with brutal treatment and assault. Granhorst discovered two peasants stealing corn from his barn, and at the point of a revolver he compelled them to undress completely, notwithstanding the intense cold. He then ordered them to run, firing shots as they fled. All the shots missed their marks. The next morning one man was found frozen stiff on the roadside. The court decided that Granhorst had transgressed the limits of self-protection allowed by the law, and fined him £5.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19135, 1 April 1924, Page 7
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