NAZIS MURDER DEPUTY

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1933, Page 7

NAZIS MURDER DEPUTY

THREE BODIES IN CANAL

RAID ON WORKERS’ QUARTER

YOUNG MAN SHOOTS THREE

TERRIBLE REVENGE TAKEN

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright Rec. 10 p.m. London, July 10.

Confirmation has been received of the murder of a Socialist Reichstag deputy, Johannes Stelling, by Nazi .Storm troops during a midnight Nazi raid upon a workmen’s colony at Kropenick, where Stelling lived, says the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. A young son of a trade union secretary named Schmans lost his head and shot three raiders. The whole colony was searched until Stelling was found. For a week no information concerning his fate was available; then the body was found in the Zerpen Canal, sewn in a sack.

Stelling was identified though his face was beaten to pulp. Young Schmans was also found in the canal beaten to death, and finally his father’s body was found in the canal. Schmans’ mother in the meantime having lost her reason was sent to an asylum. The Nazis’ method of beating is to use a steel rod “from the belt downwards.” After the beating the victim is stripped to the waist and shown to a Nazi prison doctor, who smilingly certifies that he has not been touched.