PENALTY FOR TERRORISM
FIRST VICTIMS OF AUSTRIAN LAW HANGING OF A YOUNG SOCIALIST. By Telegraph—Press . Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 9.35 p.m. London, July 25. The first victims of thi new emergency law providing for capital punishment for terrorist crimes, says the NewsChronicle’s Vienna correspondent, are two Socialists, Joseph Gerl, aged 22, and Rudolf Anzbock, aged 21, who were sentenced to death for bombing a railroad signal. Gerl was hanged within three hours and Anzbock was committed to life imprisonment. Socialists demonstrated as a protest, declaring that Dr. Dolfuss, the Chancellor, would not dare to hang a Nazi, though there were plenty of Nazi outrages.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1934, Page 5
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