SWOBODA RELEASED
MAN WHO SHOT CROMAR
MURDER TRIAL RECALLED
The "Daily Mail" says since the British Army left the Rhineland last week the Germans have released sixteen men and women sentenced by the British Military Court, including Franz Swoboda, who murdered the New Zealand soldier Cyril Cromar at Cologne in February, 1919. Swoboda was' leader of a gang terrorising German women who were accompanying British soldiers. After shooting Cromar he escaped to unoccupied Germany, but returned to Cologne in 1925, and was arrested. His death sentence was commuted- to life' imprisonment.
The majority of those liberated are girls sentenced for disobeying deportation orders.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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103SWOBODA RELEASED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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