MURDER OF CASHIER
GERMAN INDUSTRIALIST ARRESTED. CHARGE OF SUBORNATION. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 16. (Received Jttly 16, at 11 p.m.) The Daily Mail’s correspondent states that a sensation lias been caused throughout Germany by the arrest of Dr Rudolf Haas, the great Madgeburg industrialist, on a charge of suborning a workman and his chauffeur to murder his chief cashier, Hermann Hellins, who disappeared in 1925. The body was found yesterday buried in a cellar. A clue was provided by an anonymous letter to the police. The chauffeur acknowledges luring the cashier to the cellar and the workman, S-chioedar, confesses to murdering him. He alleges that Haas enticed him. It is suggested 'hat the crime is associated with Hellin’s alleged discovery that the Haas Company was falsifying its income taxation returns and informing the authorities. He mysteriously disappeared five hours before he was due at the office o! the inspector of taxes.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 11
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