REICHSTAG FIRE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 3

REICHSTAG FIRE

TRIAL SIDELIGHTS WOMEN’S EVIDENCE BERLIN, Nov. 16. A talkative charwoman, Anna Schreiber, provided somo amusement at the Reichstag fire trial to-day. She described how sho saw Dimitrotf with a Communist deputy, Elierlein, in a flat where Diinitroff lived under an assumed name. Dimitrotf denied meeting Eibcrlcin. The president of tho court asked what was in Dimitrofl’s trunk, and Frau Schreiber replied, “I couldn’t open it because it was locked.” Frau Roeszler testified to conversing with Dimitroff in tho night express from Munich on the night of tho fire. Ho had introduced himself as Dr. Hadiger, and said he had been commissioned by tho Italian Government to write on tho progress and decline of kultur. Dimitroff admitted this, and added that his incognito entailed telling many untruths. Frau Annie Kruger tearfully admitted that a card announcing her engagement to Dimitroff had been printed without his knowledge in order to stop talk, though she was aware that he could not marry her. Diinitroff stressed his indebtedness to Frau Kruger, who had not been aware Hint he was a Communist, refugee, and who had stood by him when lie was accused of setting lire to the Reichstag.