Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-19 | Page 3 | German Arch Slayers Must Pay with Lives

GERMAN ARCH SlAYERS MUST MUSTI I i PAY WITH liVES I Fritz Haarman Convicted f for r Killing 24 Youths by I. I Sucking Blood From I Throats to Go to Block HANOVER Germany Dec 19 B By A. A P. P p. Fritz P.-Fritz Fritz tz Haarmann the wholesale murderer whose trial for the slaying of twenty-six twenty persons persons persons per per- sons has stirred all all- Germany was I sentenced to death today The extreme penalty was was was' also I ordered in the caSe caso of his accomplice accomplice I pUce Hans Grans I Haarmann laarmann was found guilty of ot murdering twenty-four twenty young men J the crimes extending oVer o a period i Of pI six years His Isis code codefendant was condemned for inciting to murder in one caseI case I go to the decapitating block joyfully and happily Haarman declared declared declared de de- to tho the court Then he pleaded Dont send me to the Insane asylum I would rathe rath P not 11 live ve ATTACKS NEWSPAPERS Grans' Grans attorney reviewing the history of ot the tho case resented the charge that such uch an affair was possible possible possible pos pos- sible only in Germany as claimed b by some of the newspapers A A long chain of cases leads fr from m Gilles Gilles' de Retz via Landru Loeb Haarmann he de declared de- de and Leopold Le to The attorney pleaded that that Haar Haar- Haarmann Haarmann mann was the master mind in tho the series of ot murders and that Grans was but his tool who did not know tho the real purpose purpose purpose-of of l luring the young men to ns n's room Haarmann addressing tho Jury showed no remorse for tor his grew- grew some deeds WOULD KILL AGAIN Were Vere I set at liberty I would murder murder- again he ho said Why I kill Is a mystery to me he remarked His ills plea was full of recriminations against his dead fa father father fa- fa ther and his friend Grans In Gr Grans' Grans ns' ns hands I was soft as I wax he sa said Id but I needed him as asI 1 I was alone in the world Claiming his condition was wag a I morbid one Haarmann said How I got into this condition I dont don't know I simply saw that Inthe in inthe the tho morning there was a corpse next to me but not in all cases He declared a l large ge proportion of his potential victims escaped I never acted with premeditation premeditation tion and I 1 dont don't understand 1 why my victims did not offer otter resistance resistance tance were other declarations I Fritz Haarmann a Hanover butcher was shown at his trial to toI tobe tobe be a criminal degenerate who lured men and boys to his lodgings and there killed them by tearing their I throats with his teeth and sucking their blood THROWN INTO STREAM Tho crimes were committed in his room in the top story of a decrepit tenement house facing the River Leine and the bodies were disposed of ot by throwing them into the I stream Many human bones were found when the bed of the river was dragged after his arrest early I last summer The testimony at the trial which aroused Intense horror throughout Germany was revolting much of or it I to the extent that witnesses were heard behind closed doors Among the allegations was that the murderer murderer mur mur- derer as a butcher had offered his customers human flesh for con Haarmann confessed to s g. staying shying Ing fifteen youths between the ages of 15 and 22 but declared he could not remember the exact number or the names of his victims The crimes I were spread over a period of several several sev sev- eral years sev-I sev