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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1930.

No. 22,413 號叁拾百肆仟式萬弍饿

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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X. P.X. A.M.A.M. AM, ANAM.

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7.X

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Yaumati Dep. 6.44 ·---

Shatin...Dep 8.58

Taipo...Dep 7,10

Taipo

Market. Dep. 7.18

Fanling Dep. 795

Abeung.

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Mundays & Holidays ORİJ

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9.28 10.20 13,30) 1.38) 948 10.33, 13.45 1.31

damlaya de Holiánya suzentes

2,32 3.30 4,30 5,407.85

4.88 5.48 7.43 4.506.00 7.55 5.04 6.13 8.09

5,08 6.17 8.11 5,19 6.97 8.33 9.01[10.08 10.52) 1.05 2,10 3.715.23 6.82 8.26

949 10.87 13.47 1.55 10.00 10.47 12,572,01

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6.40

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3.95

713 739 10.34 22

17.69 1.2.83 4,39 | 5.47 | 6,48

11.56 2.40 4.45 3.54

7,07 7.14

12.00 44 4.50 5,58

12.11 2.54 5.00 6.08

11.18 3.00 5.04 6.12

12.30 3:135.176.26

19.49 8.875.39 | 6.88

Canton ...Dop. Shamchim... Dep. Shanghai Dep. Fanling

...Dep.

Trino Market. Dep.

7.20 9.08 194 7.25 8.10 10.47 7.34 3.31 110.57

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Kowloon Art. 8.12 8.57 1.32 1301 13.48

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SEQUEL TO MURDER MYSTERY.

DOUBTFUL GUILT OF EXECUTED MAN,

DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON SECOND MAN

FOR SAME CRIME.

UNITED PRESS,);"

him to live in the overcrowded Nogens shack. In March, 1925, be, was brought to trial in the city of Neustrelitz. On March 20 he was condemned to death On February 16, 1996, he was beheaded with an axe by the official executioner. Vietiia of

Spits.

Although he has been dead for four years and more, the case of the alleged child-murderer, Joseph Jakubowski, continues to stir up the deepest interest and most widespread debate throughout Germany. It is contended that the men's conviction and subsequent execution were based on spito and not on proved facts, and the pre- There arose soon thereafter a sus ponderance of legal as well as larpicion that Jakubowski had been opinion supports this view.

Interest in the case has again been brought to fever pitch through the sentencing to death in April of this year, of another man for the same murder, and because of the fact that the same sentence once mora condenmed Jakubowski,

Father peasant that Brackel believed him to be. In their version, however, the Nogenses implicated Jakubowski, although at the same time they confessed that they themselves were not guiltless.

Nogens Not Free From Guilt.. Much of the rancor and hatred which the villagers had expressed toward Jakubowski in the first trial was absent from their testi- mony at the second. Whereas in 1993 most of them had been posi tive, without offering any evidence upea which to base their belief, that Jakubowski was guilty, or at best had been a disreputable char- made. the victim of spitework.acter, at the second hearing mone Grandmother Nogen atriarch of came forward and openly accused the shack, was unable to control him, while not a few pictured him her tongue and her gossiping led the simple, honest and light- to rumours unfavourable to other hearted members of the family. Father Brackel, Catholic chaplain of the prison in which Jakubowski had been kept while awaiting execution, became interested in the case. He

A report of a committee of The whole story of the Jakubow-publishd a letter in which he ex- ski case is one of peasant fear and pressed, the opinion that the Jaka prominent jurists who had investi peasant hatred, of deceit and per bowski trial bad been raw crude" gated the case was presented. The jury, of primitive life and primi from beginning to end. There had jurista asserted they had been an tive morale. It remains, above all not been a fair trial. Jakubowski, able to overcome our belief that and to this day, an unsolved my knowing only a few words of Ger- there is much more than a shadow ta Jakubowski's stery. It is known that the boy, man, had been denied an inter of doubt as

New testimony revealed guilt. Ewald Nogear, was strangled to preter." The evidence had been death and that Jakubowski, said to wholly circumstantial. A desire to that the circumstantial evidence have been his father, was beheaded bong the guilt on Jakubowski mereupon which Jakubowski had been after being convicted of the crime.ly because he was a foreigner bad convicted was filled with unbridge- Beyond that nothing has been been apparent throughout. Father able gaps. This testimony in the definitely established. Even the Brackel believed unquestionably in opinion of the new prosecutor, trial court admits that the actual Jakubowski's innocence, circumstances surrounding Ewald's death have not been made clear..

An Unsolved Mystery.

Conflicting Confessions.

State's Attorney Weber, was such as to lend considerable weight to the theory that Jakubowski was in- nocent and he asked the court in passing' fudgment upon the No- genses to use that opportunity clear Jakubowski's name.

August Kogens Sentenced to Death.

The

Justice. Murder,” Organizations like the League for A Russian Prisoner-of-War; o

the Rights of Man took a hand Joseph Jakubowsk was a Russian The newspapers caught up the cry prisoner-of-war who elected to stay that a Justice murder had been on in Germany after his release.comanitted Doimanis far an in- He spoke very little German and quiry were made on the floor of the

Instead the court, in sentencing was an unskilled workman.. He Mecklenberg Diet Confronted with made a living by hiring himself this unceasing publicity, the Nenst August Nogens to death, Fritz ous to peasants in the neighbour-relitz authorities reopened the case. Nagens to four years in prison and hood of the village of Palingen in They arrested August Nogens, their mother, Frau Kachler, to six Mecklenberg-Strelitz. Palingen is Fritz Nogens and their mother, years' imprisonment, reaffirmed its typical of Old World villages that Frau Elisabeth Kaebler, only to conviction that Jakubowski, was stand off the beaten paths of com- have them ordered released by also involved in the crime." HONG KONG-UANTON LINE.

merce and civilization; its peo-State's Attorney Mueller, the man verdict stated that although the ple are backward, superstitious, who had prosecuted Jakubowski Nogene admittedly were patho- logical liars" as had been testified. Sallings from Heng Kong:Daily, st8LM. & 10.00P.M. Bunday

110.00 only) adamantly conservative. Jakubow

by expert witnesses, this mental de ski became acquainted with the.. 4.50 only) Sallinge from Canton: Daily, at 8 A.M. & 4.30 P.M. (days

Nogenses, a family of very poor Mueller was shortly thereafter fect could not be used to refute peasants living in a tumbledown retired (he now faces court charges their own confession and inasmuch shack on the outskirts of Palingen. in connection with the first trial) as these confessions bad implicated There were eight or nine persons and the three Nogenses, together Jakubowski he must be considered occupying this hut. Their manner with several other persons, were guilty. Nevertheless the court ad of living was brutally simple, pro- again arrested. The Nogenses made mitted it was itself confused as to miscuous.

a number of conflicting confessions, the facts of the crime and did not Dead Body Found in Rabbit Hole. Parts of which they later repudiat know whether "August. Nogens or ed or changed. Several months Jakubowski was the actual mur¬

derer." One of the Nogenaes was Ida, the ago they were brought to trial for oldest daughter of the family. the murder of Ewald Nogens Ope It is generally expected that According to testimony given in the of the principal witnesses was August Nogens will not lose his first trial, she bore Jakubowski two Father Brackel, who had spent head to the axe-man and that dis children, one of whom was Ewald. much time in personally investigat cussion of the case will not cease In 1923 she died. On November 9ing the situation in the village of until the real story of the murder 1924, Ewald, then four years old, Palingen. He testified that he had has been revealed. Numerous or disappeared from the Nogens shack, found Jakubowski had not been ganizations, and individuals, in- Thirteen days later his body was cruel of nature or ill disposed to cluding Father Brackel and several found, stuffed down a rabbit hole ward the boy, but had instead been promnent lawyers, as well as all in a nearby field. He had been very friendly and good-hearted. He the leading newspapers of the coun- strangled to death...

gave other testimony to support histry, are engaged in "campaign belief in Jakubowski's innocence toward this end Their primary and stated that in his opinion goal is to establish the innocence of Jakubowski would probably not Jakubowski, of which they are con have been convicted and certainly vinced, and to prevent the execu would not have been sentenced to tion of August Nogens, as to whose death had he been a native of Meck, guilt they profess to see comider-

I able doubt. lenberg instead of a Russian. ...

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