BEATEN TO DEATH.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15276, 28 June 1923, Page 5

BEATEN TO DEATH.

GERMAN TERRORIST BAND.

SECRET SOCIETY UNEARTHED.

" SEVEN ARRESTS EFFECTED. : — !'- ~ i Australian anq N.Z. Caite Assn. Received June 28, 11.30 a.m. j BERLIN, June 27. The police have succeeded in unearthing a secret society of reactionary terrorists for the perpetuation of political murders, the existence of which has been long suspected. Two young men visited the office of Vorvvaerts, and narrated how Walter Cadow, a suspected spy, was lured to a tavern, and plied with drink. He was driven to a wood by eight conspirators, and there beaten with sticks until he was senseless, when '•: the murderers stamped on his face with heavy boots, and finally cut his throat and fired two shots into his ,;' head. The body was buried under leaves of bracken! .The informants made the disclosure because they were suspected, of spying, and listed for removal.- The police found the body lin the place described, and arrested seven of the men concerned. Other arrests are pending. Information was secured showing the ramifications of the conspiracy. It is believed the murder of a Bavarian student, named Baur, last March was a similar crime. Baur had previously been arrested for complicity in a plot to murder the Socialist leader, Scheideman, but was liberated after an investigation showing that he had been chosen by a secret society to commit murder. The watchword of ' the Terrorist is stated to be, "First, the domestic enemy (namely, the Republicans, Socialists and Jews), and then the foreign one."