MURDER SOCIETY IN GERMANY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 December 1925, Page 9

MURDER SOCIETY IN GERMANY.

Remarkable Revelations Published. INVESTIGATIONS OF COMMITTEE B? Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received Dec. 20, 5.5 p.m. BERLIN, Dec. 18. Remarkable revelations of the work of an organisation known as the Vehm Society, were made in the Prussian Landtag, when a committee presented reports on its investigations. ,It was shown that twenty-eight persons, mostly officers and ensigns, were awaiting trial for participation in murders carried out under the auspices of the Vehm Society, which was constituted of a number of persons of similar views, who dictated punishments from their point of view, and these punishments were carried out by Vehm murderers. Victims were selected primarily because their presence w r as considered detrimental to the nation. The report adcis: “It w r as on these grounds that Herr Erzberger was shot. It was revealed that a Westphalian minor was murdered because ue considered it was inconsistent with his Catholic view's, that he should continue his membership of a certain League. His body w r as placed in church, in order to suggest suicide.”