THRILLING MAN HUNT ENDS IN CAPTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18381, 6 February 1928, Page 8

THRILLING MAN HUNT ENDS IN CAPTURE.

1000 SEARCHERS TAKE STARVING MURDERER.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Februarv 6, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, February 5. Hein, the murdurer. after long eluding a thousand police and soldiers, who were searching for him, was arrested at Weingarten, where he was discovered at an inn complaining that he was starving. The man-hunt was the most thrilling in German criminal history.

The Berlin correspondent of “ The Times ” .states that a resident police detachment of the Reichswehr formed a cordon round a wood in Coburg, in which an armed criminal named Hein had taken refuge. Hein is suspected of robberies and four murders. A police sergeant, who jumped off his bicycle and attempted to arrest him, was shot through the head, and Hein rode off on the bicy'cle. A second police officer overtook him and Ilein took ambush in a ditch, exchanging a fusilade until his ammunition was exhausted. Hein, who was thought to be wounded, escaped. He and an accomplice raided the post office at Ohligs at Christmas and shot two officials. His accomplice, Larm, was airested. Ilein afterwards shot two policemen who were trying to arrest him. One was fatally wounded.