BROKEN PAROLE.
LIEUTENANT KATZER'S DEATH
(Received March 18', 9 p.m.)
Sydney, March 18
At the inquest on Katzer, the German who was discovered stowed away in a lifeboat on the Sonoma, and who subsequently died, the evidence showed that he was a first lieutenant in the German Army Reserve. He and another German officer named yon Specht, breaking their parole, escaped from the German concentration camp at Liverpool. Katzer obtained a pass to board the Sonoma- from a friend. The steamer was thoroughly searched in anticipation of escapees attempting to get on board but nothing was discovered until Katzer's dying groans were heard. There was no evidence to show how he came to be hidden in the boat, the cover of which was laced down.
A verdict that death was due to deceased's stowing away in an enclosed lifebpat was returned.
Yon Spoeht is still missing,
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 5
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146BROKEN PAROLE. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 5
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