GERMAN CURRENCY LAW
VIOLATED BY CLERGYMEN SENTENCES IMPOSED BERLIN, November 24. Dr Peter Legge, Bishop of Meissen, was fined £SOOQ for violating the currency law by smuggling out money from Germany; £3200 of the flue was remitted, as he awaited a moiith tor trial. If the remainder is not paid he will be imprisoned for three months. The bishop's brother Theodore was sentenced to five years' penal serviture and fined £5600 for complicity, and T)r Soppa, the bishop's vicar-general, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined £5600.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22738, 26 November 1935, Page 11
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