SHORT SENTENCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 11

SHORT SENTENCES

\ FOUR MEN ON TRIAL DEATH OF JEWISH BROTHERS, v ' BERLIN, June 9. (Received June 9, at 5.5 p.m.) At Vaduz in the republic of Liechstenstein a trial was held in connection with the death of the brothers Rotter. Schaedler, the proprietor of the hotel to which the Rotters were lured, was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, and the three other accused men were sentenced to only a few months’ imprisonment. A message dated Aprrf 6 stated: Another outrage against German Jews outside German territory is reported at Gaslei, Liechstenstein. The brothers Alfred and Fritz Rotter, formerly leading theatre managers in Berlin, were walking with Alfred’s wife and Frau Wolf, when seven gunmen stopped and tried to drag them to a waiting motor car. Alfred and the women struggled free, and jumped down a ravine in an effort to escape. Frau Wolf was found injured. The other two were dead. In the meantime the kidnappers secured Fritz, and drove furiously towards the Austrian Tyrol..'. Fritz at Triesenberg leapt from the car and fractured his skull. The police stopped the car at Tyrol and arrested the occupants, who were lodged in gaol at Peldhirch.