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...Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...
...police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that of an elderly, Cincinnati German-American for whom Mrs. Hahn's fatal fascination had consisted of her skill at German cooking. Each contained ample traces of the favorite Hahn seasoning- arsenic and croton oil. By the time the corpses of four of Mrs. Hahn's former friends had been examined, a variation...
...trial ended, one of Mrs. Hahn's attorneys was absent. Sniffled his partner, Hiram Bolsinger, who was present at the verdict despite a bad cold: "Joe . . . didn't think he could stand the finish." When Lawyer Bolsinger, 58-year-old German-American, promised to appeal the verdict, reporters asked him who would pay the will." costs. Answered Lawyer Bolsinger : "We will...
Result was another standoff. For direct quotation onetime History Professor Dodd declared of his interview: "We accompanied the delivery of our instructions with a verbal expose of what the attacks mean in the way of beclouding German-American relations, but left it to the German authorities to draw their own conclusions." U. S. correspondents in Berlin reported authoritatively that mild Ambassador Dodd had actually barked one of the stiffest complaints ever delivered by one Government to another, proclaiming the U. S. Government & people thoroughly shocked by the Nazi press's "unparalleled coarse, indecent language." But his trip...
Died. Gustav Oberlaender, 69, co-founder of Reading, Pa.'s Berkshire Knitting Mills, world's largest hosiery manufacturers; of heart disease; in Reading. In 1931 he set up a $1,000,000 Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...