BOYS PLAN MURDER.
AMAZING PLOT IN GERMANY.
By Telegraph.-'-Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Oct. 11
Remarkable evidence given at the Rathenau murder trial disclosed the existence of an academy attended mainly by boys between 13 and 16 years of age with the avowed object of cultivating the spirit of Imperialism and Prussianism as a counterblast to the Boy Scout patrols. One of the products of the academy was the schoolboy •Studenarauck, who designed the. first plaYi of Dr. Rathenau’s murder, which was not followed. He coolly informed the court that he had judged Dr. Rathenau to be a dan-
ger to the country in consequence of the Rapallo Treaty, and had arranged with Gunther, one of the accused, to murder Dr. Rathenau at a supper party given by a prominent industrialist, but as Gunther failed to keep his promise to 'provide him with a revolver he said the friendship cooled. Stubenrauck’s evidence was a mass of political trivialties. He stated that he was allowed to remain at hi* public school after the proceedings against him were decided in his favor.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 5
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