PREVENTING HIGH TREASON.
SENTENCE ON GERMAN MURDERER QUASHED. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Rerlin, January 11. A curious decision in the Criminal Court has quashed “the sentence of twenty-months’ mpriosnment imposed on Lieut. Y'ogel in connection with the murders of Herr Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, on the ground that a law was subsequently passed exempting guilty people who had offended for the purpose of preventing high treason. Vogel escaped to Holland and never served his sentence.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2677, 13 January 1921, Page 6
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78PREVENTING HIGH TREASON. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2677, 13 January 1921, Page 6
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