A GERMAN TRAGEDY.
(By Cable.) BERLIN, October 10. Reports from Weimar state that two masked men entered the residence of Admiral von Scheer (commander of the German fleet in the battle of Jutland), assassinated his wife and maid, and seriously wounded his daughter. The motive is unknown. One murderer, an artist named Buechnef, committed suicide. The other fled. Von Scheer was sleeping in an upstairs room -when the murders occurred. The victims were discovered in a coal cellar. .
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Otago Witness, Issue 3475, 19 October 1920, Page 19
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