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Show 1 SPARTAGANS SHOT HDKi loeath Penalty Inflicted on i Fritz Seidl and Red Associates. By lif A.' -'ociute.l J'r Ml'Nmi. S-nt 1'.' Fritz Sldl. the f ru.-'r Sp.irCiran I'-.ub'r. and five of his aso.-iatf . who early t"day wro sen-'r.' sen-'r.' '-i to ,n y tb' d-'ath p-maity, having tr-vi found gu: It y f the murder of h":-' a cm rt'i r t ng tin- hov i'-t ftimc, wor? r . cut. d at u'i in.:k t IiIh afternoon by Mi'-'.niig. Til- nh ox.,Mitfd wr .lop-f Seldl r-i Hvir'-.'i S; l-.'-t lc 'fcr, V.'idl. 1'urz.d and I h n . t-r '. S'-v.-n otlora wri sen t need to f l f I il ;u' jf iia I s-; v i t udi- .ix acres-1 acres-1 :-',ri- . Tin---" w . 1 1 dix-barged. Th' pris'ii: leii-iv-d tlndr Hint'-nces calmly and f''TwardH sci" rcna-v.-d ty a military mili-tary guard. The trial of H.iv.i rn n communist lender; lend-er; on thf oliai c- ot having murdered h- it ages ta lt-n during the uprisings of February b'-Mt 'pf'ned on September 1. Fritz Sddl rmd two others were said to have been thr: riugi-id- rs and to have imt igat -d the. murders, but during tli'i trial S.idl, testifying In his own behalf. i-"j,.;-t-d Dial he uaH compelled by the c omnia ndf. r of the firing sniuml to order the hostages shot He dwUrrd the commander com-mander thifatentd to kill him if ho re-fu--'cd to ord'-r the exceul ionM. As the trial proee- rled. Scldl appeared to lose his nerve and eonf essd Luat he regretted tho v. hole affair. |