Show 1 g h Nazi Chief hief i q Caught n h 1 Former Gestapo Leader Is Found in Hole Where He Hid Two Years CHINA The The bedraggled bedraggled onetime time ruthless chief of the the German gestapo in North China and Mongolia sighed with relief when he was dragged from an earthen pi pit under a rambling old house b by Chinese police It was the melodramatic melodramatic melodramatic melo melo- dramatic climax of a year two-year hunt Im glad its it's over I do not believe I could have stood it much longer I haven't seen the sun for two years gasped Charles Schmidt who vho was Himmler's swaggering swag gering bully boy here for 18 months at the height of the war Emaciated scantily clad and coughing with what he said was tuberculosis tuberculosis tu tu- contracted during his hiding hiding hid hid- ing Schmidt was meek but garru garru- garrulous lous lousHe He said he be weighed pounds when he went into hiding but now than Cant Can't Explain It In a driving rainstorm he was hustled off to the airfield for removal rem removal re re- m moval to Shanghai Beside his name nameon nameon on the list of wanted Nazis was the notation believed implicated in murder but authorities were unable to explain It It Schmidt himself said he had b been en sought sough oval ever since Germany surrendered surrendered dered due In May 1945 first by the Japanese Japanese Jap Jop- anese who feared e red and hat hated d him him and then men by the Allies after Japans Japan's defeat After fleeing to Tokyo and then back to in hi 1945 Schmidt said he had gone into hiding hid hid- ing Sag In the house where he was found It was the home of a middle aged German widow of a Chinese doctor doctorIn In east city city-a a b building t full ll of broken furniture and disordered dered rubble I A Chinese reporter who was the only witness of the arrest said the police pollee made a long search of the house their house their third in recent months and and finally rolled back a rug and found a a trapdoor Beneath It Schmidt crouched in a hole about five feet deep and four fou feet s square Clad In Rags Dont move or we will shoot n a policeman warned in English Clad only In an undershirt and overalls Schmidt was lifted out and thrown on the floor Mr Tr Tr Charley Schmidt said the police pollee captain unnecessarily weare we weare weare are looking g for tor you Yes S Schmidt hInH replied d wearily Two years Is a a long time tune He volunteered that he possessed no gun and had destroyed all his papers long ago Asked about his successor Adelbert Adel- Adel Adelbert bert Schulze who vanished from Just as Americans were preparing preparing pre pre- paring to fly h him Jo to Shanghai for repatriation Schmidt was was contemptuous contemptuous contemptuous con con- I heard beard he be was was working for the Russians Schmidt said laid He la is a fool tool No man can work for more than one master |