ANOTHER BURNED CAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18830, 19 March 1931, Page 9

ANOTHER BURNED CAR

ROUSE CASE RECALLED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, March 17. A case paralleling that of Rouse has begun at Helensburg. The Police found on the roadside a burned car, wherein was a charred body, which was identified and buried as Eric Tetzner, whose life was insured for £7,000. The Police were suspicious, watched the wife, and overheard her telephoning to Strasburg, where they found and arrested Tetzner. He at first confessed that he picked up a tramp and knocked him insensible with a spanner, and set fire to the car. Later Tetzner pleaded that he accidentally ran over and killed a tramp. He then conceived the idea of an insurance swindle. At to-day's trial, accused persisted that the latter story was true, but the Police unearthed a witness, Ortner, who, on November 26 accepted Tetzner’s invitation to ride. He was attacked with a spanner, but escaped. Frau Tetzner is charged with aiding and abetting her husband.

A PREVIOUS SWINDLE. SUCCESS LEADS TO FAILURE. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 18, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 18. It is revealed that Tetzner, who is a commercial traveller, previously managed to insure his mother-in-law for £SOO a month before her own death from cancer. The prosecution submitted that the easy success of this case induced Tetzner to stage his own death.