A CALLOUS GIRL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 90, 14 February 1928, Page 7

A CALLOUS GIRL

(herman undkh, arkjbst. a dkatii pact. BERLIN. JJfflruary 13. Revelations m the Kranz murder trial case continue to appeal to public. 'i'Jie frivolous indifference and brazen mendacity with which Hildegarde ,Scheller answered the questions of the vioe-perfe'ct of poJice aro regarded as most shocking when n< is remembered that her brother and boy lover were killed, practically in her presence.

Tile girl's callousness is partly; explained in the discovery made by a police-woman who went to the Scheller home to inquire regarding Hiltlegarde's antecedents. She found the girl's father bent over a table with Jiis head iii his hands. He was not bowed down by grief, but was solving a crossword puzzle. Elinor Ratti, a girl friend, of Hildegarde, who visited the house on the night of the murders, was ruthlessly when tsihe attempted to exonerate Jlranz at the expense of Scheller. The case of Ivranz, a schoolboy who is charged with murdering Ids boy friend, recalling the Leopold Loebe ease in Chicago, has caused a sensation in Berlin. Ivrauz was visiting; the house of a schoolboy friend named Scheller on, the night of the tragedy, others present being a third schoolboy named Stephan. and Seheller'g sister Hildegarde, aged 16. 'Hie girl parents being absent, the boy sat up all night drinking liqueurs and talking of love. The- discussion finally •turned On death, and Scheller proposed that all four should die. With a smile, Kranz states, Scheller shot Stepfiian a nd committed suicide, and he was about to commit suicide himself when the girl snatched the revolver. Some of the evidence suggested •that Stephan, being found in "Hildegarde's bedroom precipitated the tragedy. There was also evidence that some of the boysi belonged to a juvenile club the statutes of which strictly enjoined that all members who were deceived by men or women frTend s must avenge themselves upon their rivals.