The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-17
DIR, L|EbKNECHT
AND HIS AIDE
MURDERED BY
GERMAN MOB
German Radical Who OPP
posed Kaiser at Outbreak OF
War Shot Down in Streets
of Berlin.
ROSA LUXEMBURC SHOT
(By Associated Press,

(By ASSOcldteO IreSSp
BERLIN, Jan. 17-Dr. Kari Lieb-
knecht and Rosa Luxembourg have
been killed.
When it became known yesterday
that DR.. Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem-
bourg were at the hotel Eden, in the
western part of the city, crowd rap
idly congregated and stormed the ho-
tel lobby to lay hands on them. Both
were spirited to side entrance to
the hotel but the mob forestalled the
attempt of the troops to save FRAU
lein Luxembourg. She was beaten in
to insensibility and then thrown into
an automobile by the crowd, which in
tended to take her to prison.
A few blocks down the street the
machine was halted by second mob
and, when the presence of Fraulein
Luxembourg became known, a man
jumped on the running board of the
car and shot her through the head.
The body was dragged from the auto
mobile and carried off. 1t is supposed
that it was thrown into the canal but
it has not been found.
Shot by Soldiers.
In the meantime, DR.. Liebknecht
was hurried into another automobile
by officers and troops and the car
was headed for the Moabit prison.
While going through the Tiergarten,
the machine was halted by pune
tured tire. DR.. Liebknecht was asked
to get out by the officers, who intend
ed to hail another automobile and
continue toward the prison. While
waiting, DR.. Liebkknecht made an at
tempt to escape and was shot dead by
soldiers, who had anticipated such an
effort on his part.
When Dr. Liebknecht was arrested
at the home of a relative on Mann
| heimerstrausse yesterday morning, he
| stoutly denied his identity. After be-
| ing escorted to the Eden Hotel, he was
| searched and his monogram, tx. L."
/ was discovered on his shirt.
| Dr. Liebknecht's capture was due to
a telephone conversation overheard by
| detectives in which he and Rosa Lux
emburg agreed to meet at the home OF
a man named Marcusson in the suburb
of Wilmersdorf Marcusson's home,
the police say, has long been one of
| the gathering places of the Spartacans.
| Last Dash for Freedom.
i Dr. Liebknecht's attempt at escape
was the last desperate dash for free
dom On the part of a man who had left
prison only last October. When the
automobile which was carrying him
| broke down he was warned against
| any attempt at flight The officer in
charge asked DR.. Liebknecht, who was
| bleeding from wound in the head he
| had received through being struck by
| a cane in the hands of some member
of the mob, whether he felt able to
walk a few hundred yards to the
| street where a new automobile could
be found.
| DR.. Liebknecht said he could and
| the party started to walk. When near
a group of trees DR.. Liebknecht push
ed aside the soldiers nearest him and
dashed for the underbrush in the Tier
garten The soldiers ordered him to
halt. He paid no attention to their
demands and several shots were fired
at him.
One bullet struck him in the base of
the neck, squarely between the shoul-
ders and his death was virtually in
stantaneous.
BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS.
| BASEL, Jan. 17.-Dr Karl Lieb-
knecht has been shot and killed while
trying to escape as he was being taken
to prison, according to the Frankfort
- GdZeLtS. IL Is dlSO TtpOitcu lIidt INoStt
Luxembourg, Mr. Liebknecht's chief
lieutenant was also shot dead after
being beaten into unconsciousness by
a crowd at Berlin.
i Karl Paul Friedrich Liebknecht was
born at Leipsic on August 13. 1871.
After being graduated from the Univer-
sity of Leipsic, he entered politics as
a socialist. He was a radical opponent
of the militarist policies of Germany
from the first of his political career
and this attitude brought about his
trial on a charge of high treason In
1907, following the appearance of an
: anti-military pamphlet written by him.
The charge. of high treason was no.
proven, but he was convicted on =
less serious charge and went to prison
for eighteen months.
DR.. Liebknecht visited America in
1910 and lectured in New York dur
ing his stay in that city.
Charge Against krupps.
In 1912 he was elected to the Reich
stag from Potsdam and the next year
caused afuror in Germany by bringing
charges against the krupps. saying
that the organization was inspiring
war spirit against the French He
continued his attacks and in the course
of debates mentioned Emperor VIII
: liam and the crown prince as being in
volved in the alleged conspiracy CEN
, tering around the Krupps. As result
: of his revelations several army oicers
were tried for accepting bribes from
Krupps. They were convicted but re-
ceived light sentences.
When the great war broke out, DR.
I Liebknecht refused to do military du-
ty and it was rumored that he had
been executed. This report was un-
, true and he was later found in the
[ ranks of an engineer battalion on the
| Russian front, where, In December,
1915, lie was seriously injured by q
falling tree.