POLICE SUSPICION PROVES JUSTIFIED.
CUNNING MURDERER TRAPPED; WIFE GAVE CLUE TO WHEREABOUTS (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 7, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. Finding a deserted and burned motor-car, in which there was a man’s charred body, on a country road near Regensburg, the police assumed that it was an accident. They identified the owner of the car through its number plate, says the Berlin correspondent of “ The Times.” The man’s wife claimed to recognise the body as that of her husband -nd took to it Leipzig for burial, but the police, becoming suspicious, watched the wife and caught her telephoning to her husband at Strasbourg, where he was arrested. It is alleged that he confessed to having murdered an unknown man on the public highway and then set fire to the car with the body inside, after which he went to Strasbourg. It is further alleged that the crime was committed to enable the wife to secure her husband’s life insurance, amounting to £7250.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 1
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