RELEASE OF PRISONERS
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS FOr.3ED. OPERATIONS OF GERMAN COMPANY
PRINCIPALS SENTENCED
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, November 21.
The Times', Cologne correspondent stales that a French general courtmartial has ended the operations of what is known as the escaping company, consisting of eight German partners, each of whom was sentenced in absentia to' 20 years hard labour and fined 3000 marks. It appears that a prisoner in Wittech prison stole an official order of release for pardon. The man gave the document to a Wei baden woman, who founded the escaping company. Facsimile's of the order were manufactured, and official stamps to signatures .forged. . The company, with these, procured the release of a large number of prisoners, including dangerous criminals, from Wittech during the past two years.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15101, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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129RELEASE OF PRISONERS Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15101, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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