BERLIN MURDER TRIAL.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13411, 8 May 1912, Page 5

BERLIN MURDER TRIAL.

~ CRIMES OF A DYING MAN

RESULT OF A GREED FOR GOLD

(Received May 7, 11.5 p.m.)

Berlin, May 7

Extraordinary scones-were witnessed at the trial of Trenkler, a locksmith, who confessed to a triple - murder in a jeweller's shop on January 18th.

Fashionable women flocked the Court. Trenkler, who is in an advanced state of consumption, and is dying, presented a pitiable figure.

Despite the presence of paper parcels containing the skulls of his victims, the accused narrated how he felled his wife, and was escaping when a girl entered. She clung to him until he felled her, with a jemmy. He was driven to tho murders by an irresistible longing for gold and jewels.

An, attack of hemorrhage necessitated an adjournment of the hearing.