A LUNATIC ALOFT.

Wairarapa Age, 2 September 1931, Page 5

A LUNATIC ALOFT.

ENDEAVOURS TO DESTROY BIG ’PLANE. FOUND FEEDING TN, AME SI WITH PETROL. ONE WAY OF PROVIDING FOR FAMILY. .(Received Tuesday, 8.20 p.m.) BERLIN, September I. While t\e three-engined Lufthansa air liner, with eight passengers, was flying over hilly forest country from Munich to Berlin, an explosion occurred in the cloakroom. The control officer battered down the door and found the compartment in flames and a passenger feeding tfie blaze with a bottle of petrol. The passenger was overpowered, bound and gagged and handed over to the police, who were communicated with by wireless. A later message states that the arrested incendiary is Karl Hutte, who allegedly attempted to obtain insurance by two attempts at suicide. While in custody he opened his veins and at present is dying iir hospital Hutte, who is a plain family man, was recently seized with a wild fit of extravagance. He. secretly drew out all his wife’s sayings 1 and spent them in a few d »ys at Munich, where he bought an air ticket, intending to obtain for his family £25<X) fpr which sum German air passengers are insured.