GERMAN MURDER.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13825, 23 September 1913, Page 6

GERMAN MURDER.

CASE^REVIVES [WRONGFUL CONVICTION SUSPECTED. J?©LICE COMMISSARY'S METHODS (Rcceivod Sept 22, IL2O p.m.) Berlin, Sept' 22. The public prosecutor at Elberfeld reopened the inquiry into the case of F-ra« Hamm, who was ■ sentoncod in 190S to a long term of imprisonment for tho murder of her husband, a peasant fiarmer. Tho conviction was based on the report of a police commissary at Berlin wlio has since left the service, and wkose mailioda'the authorities sovorolj criticised. It is now believed thai Hamm was murdered by a burglar. .