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Show SERVE SENTENCE; CLAIM INNOCENCE Germans Now Start Hunt for Proof. Ii-i-l In. In 1H1-I two men, whose names ale l.ehlng and Schmidt, were sentenced In a I ie!nienhort coin t to II years' imprisonment after being convicted on a chaige of having committed com-mitted a murder while robbing a Pel-nieiihorst Pel-nieiihorst store. In lP'-'l they were released re-leased fiotii (prison, tlielr sentences hlllll.g been short. -lied because of good bohawor. Immediately upon being freed they set about the apparently Impossible u--k of proving llal they were Innocent of the crime for which (hey spent se on years ill Jail. Now, howowr, after another seven years, during which they talked to thousands of persons ami lsllcil scores of towns mid villages, they have obtained ob-tained sworn nlhdavits from three people peo-ple asserting that they were miles away from the scene of the rolmery at the time that It was taking place. A woman by the name of Haschinsky testified before the criminal court la Oldenburg that she had met and talked with the two men in a simp In I'.remen at five o'clock on the day of the murder; mur-der; It was at five o'clock that the murder took place. A married couple likewise recalled under oath that they had met the men on the street ln I'.remen the same afternoon. A fourth witness, who It Is believed can give listimony that they did not return to Pelmenliorsl until the following fol-lowing day, Is now being sought. When bis fithd.ivli has been obtained Lehing and Schmidt Intend to apply for the compensation to which German law entitles all persons unjustly convicted |