SANTIAGO-DE-CHILE SENSATION.
HERR BECKERT'S STATEMENT.
Received February 17, 8.22 a.m.
SANTIAGO, February 16. Herr Beckert, late German Chancellor at Santiago de Chile, declares that he killed the porter in self-de-fence.
It was at first reporced that Beckert had been murdered in his office,. after receiving a threatening letter, and that,the building had then been set on fire. Later it was discovered ,
that the remains found in the ruins of the Charxsllery, wera thosa of a porter, who had been stabbed prior to the fire. Beckert was subsequ mtly arrested on a charge of em--bezzling £I,OOO-
CABLE SEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3118, 18 February 1909, Page 4
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