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MURDER MYSTERY IN
GERMANY.
" HYPNOTIO INFLUENCES."
LORD KITCHENER.
MR. ASQUITH'S DEFENCE.
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A murder mystery of a singular | ben iæus of Pearson's Kapasina a strik. character and of very unusual paycholo- | ing appreciation of Earl Kitchener, in gical interest came up for judicial in-] which he replies with vigour, if not vestigation on Decembar áth, at Hirsch- asperity, to the criticisms of the Ista berg, in Silesia. The superficial facts of Field Marshal's attituds and conduct the case are briefly as follows. The tragedy during the war contained in Viscount took place on February 14th last in the Eaher's recently published book. Admit. Schloss Kleppelsworf, the modern manting that Lord Kitchener was not an easy | CALUUTTA, LINE: sion of a manorial estate in one of the man to know; Mr. Asquith alludes to picturesque valleys of Lower Silesia, the strong impression made on him by Two young girl of the family did not the striking and formidable personality appear to lunch, and a maid was seat of the soldier in their early meetings be to call them from were supposed to be engaged in somning of August, 1914, that the only person in the House of Commons at the begin- Joint amusement. She found them both lying on the floor bleeding from bullet ever thought of as his successor at wounds, one dead and the other in the the War Office was Lord Kitchener. He MANILA last agony. The elder of the two victims Proceeds:
From that day, for nearly two years, was Boerthe Hohrbeck, 18 years of age. She was the owner of the chatean, and is Lord Kitchener and I were in the closest said to have been one of the reies: and most intimate contact. With the heiresses in Silesia. Her bright, sunny single exception of the devoted. Fitz nature and kindness of heart oven more gerald, who perished with him, there was, than millions of marks had made her po. I believe, no one to whom he opened his pular among the peasant population for mind and heart more fully and with less milea around. The other victim was her reserve, Kitchener was a great man with consin, Uraula Schadenspond, aged 13. certain obvious limitations; some of them She was shot through the bead, and the congenital, others the natural, perhaps revolver from which the fatal bullet had the necessary, results of the environment been discharged lay beside her body. "In of his past career. He was disposed to the pocket of ben dress was found a be secretive, and did not find it easy to letter addressed to Granny," in which throw his knowledge and judgment into were the words, "Doerthe will not the common stock. It is, however, an trouble you any more." It was also stat absurd travesty of the facts to say (as ed in the letter that the writer had taken Lord Esher does) that at the War Offee the pistol out of one of her father's he "neither asked nor took the advice, drawers.
of any man" Ho was to my knowledge from, the day when he took over the post, in constant communication and lamented Sir John Cowans, the Quarter consultation with that great soldier, the
master-General.
Lord Kitchener had perforce in the first months to be in effect his own Chief of the Sta. But he attached, as I did, the greatest importance to bringing into the Staff at the War Office officers who had had actual daily experience of the new methods of warfare in France and elsewhere. Sir W, Robertson, before he would accept office in December, 1918, insisted upon certain conditions which would define its functions and safeguard its independent authority. Lord Kit- chener reluctantly and somewhat grudg ingly acquiesced, but, having accepted them, he loyally submitted to them, and from that time until his death there was between him and the Chief of the Staff! complete and cordial co-operation.
Those cireumstances "suggested that Ursula had killed her cousin and then committed suicide. Even so, the tragedy would have been sufficiently remarkable, but what might be 'considered an ade quate motive was preant in the fact that Doertho was on very bad terms with her grandmother, between whom and Ursula the tenderest relations existed.. The younger girl was also of an overwrought and hysterical disposition, and might ponceivably have thought she was doing her grandmother a service by killing her cousin. However, a very brief investiga tion led the police to take into custody on the charge of double murder Ursula's stepfather, Peter Grupen, who was also living in the chatean as the time. He is & man of 27, of interesting antecedenta
Beginning life as a mason, Grupen worked his way up to the position of as architect, and married Ursula's mother, whose first husband was killed under somewhat mysterious circumstances while
Touching on the famous shella contro- he was shooting. One of the indirect verey, Mr. Asquith retraverses some grounds of suspicion against Grupen a familiar ground, but he also produces a that his wife disappeared unaccountably hitherto unpublished letter from Lord about a year ago, and was not to be Kitchener on the subject which is of no found. According to his own account,ittle interest. the ran off with an actor to America, and
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letters annoducing her intention to go to that country were at the time received the war Grapen lost an arm. He is dis cribed as a big, blond, well-built man, self-possessed demeanour, with polished manners, and carefully attired in fashion able garments.
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Lord Kitchenar laboured night and day U.K.-STRAITS. CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.
multiply the output. By the end of April, to enlarge the area of supply and to 1916, we were, despite boartrending de ing in three days the amount of an lays in delivery by contractors, produc munition produced before the war in a whole year. Never was there a case in which the charge of apathy or lethargy was worse founded.
that
My dear Prime Minister,—I have had a talk with French. He told me. I could let you know that with the pre- sent supply of ammunition he will have as much as his troops will be able to use' on the next forward movement.
Tha question arises what motive Grupen could have had for murdering his The prospect, however, in the near stepdaughter and her cousin, and here future was very serious one... It was we come upon the most curious feature in not our business to encourage, the enemy this strange case. For every one of the by revealing the nature and extent of our main links in its chain of evidence the disquietudes, which were great and real. It was for that reason that both Mr. alleged fact that Grupen possessed irre Lloyd George and I were careful to say, nstible hypnotic powers "aver women. on Lord Kitchener's authority, "On the death of Doerthe and in the there was no immediate dearth at the absence of her aunt, Ursula's mother, the front. That Lord Kitchener did not give Kleppelsdorf estate reverted to the grandus those assurances without full inquiry mother of the two girls, Frau Eckert. is shown by the letter which he addressed This elderly lady is said to have been so to me on April 14th:- completely under the thumb-of-Grupen- that he would have had no difficulty in getting her possessions into his hands. Thor'e seems no doubt that the letter found in Ursula's pocket was written by ber, but the theory is put forward that Grupen compelled her to write it in a bypaotic trance. Accused has what seems to be an incontrovertible alibi, and galle Frau Eckert, Doerthe's house "keeper," and "ber governess to prove that during the whole period of the time within which the tragedy might have oc curred he was uninterruptedly in their presence and that twenty crinutes before. WHAT IS EYESTRAIN 2
be fatal shote were fired he was actually
The eye has certain tiny muscles. playing with the two girls. Here the When objects we look at do not come theory-of-the-prosecution in that the wit nesses for the airbi iso made their exone up to a sharp focus in the eye, these rating statements under the infincace of muscles, exert themselves unduly and Grupen's hypnotis powers. Moreover, it enable us to see clearly in spite of the is expected that evidence will be called
I think the next move will be much, better than the last, with co-operation from the French forces, which failed last time. Yours very truly,
(Signed) KITCHENER,
to prove that he used this power for defect. These muscles tire and relax other vile purposes, and that he had causing the objects. looked at to become illicit relations both with his stepdaugh-blarred and indistinct. Upon closing the ter and with Doerthe's housekeeper.
eyes for a few seconds the muscles bien Additional human interest is lent to
come more or less rested and objects the asse by the fact that the wealth sup posed to have been the motive of the Bre clear again for a brief period crime originated in one of those modest Properly fitted glasses correct eye-strain, peasant farms now covered by the bricks whether caused by astigmatism or age; and mortar of Berlin, which in the course of a few years were transformed, The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to by the spread of the mushroom capital, Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Refract into building sites of fantastic value. It ing Opticians, 53, Queen's Boad, Central, is a byword on the lips of Berliners that
these quickly and casually acquired riches have the equipment to it you glasses have nearly always proved calamitous to properly-ADVT. the families owning them.
About "a hundred witnesses and a dozen experts in criminal psychology are
to be called.-Daily Telegraph.
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