German Thieves Pilfer Grave of Gen. Von Moltke
Item
- Title
- German Thieves Pilfer Grave of Gen. Von Moltke
- Source
- Evening Star (DC)
- Date
- 1920-06-24
- page
- 29
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1920-06-24/ed-1/?sp=29&q=theft&r=0.628,0.018,0.449,0.163,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- theft; grave
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- crime
- Location
- out-of-state; Berlin, Germany
- Length of story
- 236
- Description
- GERMAN THIEVES PILFER GRAVE OF GEN. VON MOLTKE. BERLIN, June 24 - The wave of criminality in Germany shows no sign of abating. Jails are filled to capacity with the thieving fraternity, from those guilty of grand larceny down to the sneak thieves of the big city streets. Very often new arrivals have to be temporarily released from custody owing to lack of room in the penitentiaries. Here are some of the principal thefts and robberies reported in the last few days: At Kreisau the mausoleum of Field Marshal von Moltke was broken open and the silver wreaths and crosses stolen from the sarcophagus. The field marshal's sword was found broken. At Spandau a mortuary chapel was stripped of its leaded window panes. Another mortuary chapel at Staaken was stripped of its zinc roof. A band of armed robbers forced their way into the burgomaster’s house at Paaren, near Nauen, appropriated 50,000 marks belonging to the village treasury and left the burgomaster tied to a chair. At Fallersleben, near Brunswick, the author of a theft from a sealed freight car was traced and several carloads of stolen goods were discovered hidden. The thief was a candidate for a town councilorship. In a popular Berlin suburb a woman who was shopping left her baby in a perambulator Outside the store for a few minutes. The perambulator disappeared and the baby was found half naked in a doorway.
