ANOTHER ROUSE CASE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 89, 24 March 1931, Page 5

ANOTHER ROUSE CASE

PROSECUTION'S ALLEGATION

MURDER FOR INSURANCE MONEY

BERLIN, March 22. Another case strikingly akin to thoso of Tctzner and Rouse, was revealed at a hearing of a charge of murder in the Prussian town of Bartenstoin against a furniture merchant, Fritz Saffran, secretary of the Lla Augustine, and a cleik named Kippuich. The prosecution states that Saffran insured.his life for £7OOO and he and Kippnich drove about the country seeking a victim to murder in order that the body might be mistaken for Saffran's. One man escaped them, but later they stopped a cycling milkman and shot him. They then drove the body to a warehouse, placed Saffran's keys, cuff links and rings in the pockets, saturated the whole with petrol, and then set the place on fire. Saffran fled to Berlin, and the body was buried as his, the money being paid over to the secretary. Later Saffran was going to Hamburg to embark for South America when a guard recognised him and informed the polce.