Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
Both Red Leader and Rosa
Luxemburg Killed in
Berlin Streets.
WOMAN IS VICTIM
OF SECOND MOB
seized by Ono Group Of ineen'sd
Citizens and Taken by Second and
Beaten and Shot to 0sath-l'eb-
kneeht Shot While Trying to Escape
From OFFICERS Who Had Placed Him
Under Arrest
rBy the Associated Press.l

Berlin, Jan. 16.-Dr. Karl Leibknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg have been killed.
Liebknecht was shot and killed while
trying to escape as he was being taken
to prison, and Rosa Luxembars, MI
Liebknechts chief lieutenant, was also
shot dead after being beaten into un-
consciousness by crowd.
when it became known yesterday
that DIR. Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem-
burg we're at the Hotel Eden. in the
western part Of the city. crowd rap
idly conKregated and stormed the no.
tel lobby to lay hands on them.
Both were spirited to a side entrance
to the hotel, but the mob forestalieo
the attempt Of the troops to save
Fraulein Luxemburg. She was beaten
into insensibility and then thrown into
an automobile by the crowd. which IN
tended to take her to prison.
Second Mob Kills Woman.
A few blocks down the street the
machine was halted by a second mon
and when the presence OF Frauiein
I.lxemburg becafne known. a man
jumped on the running board OF tne
car and shot her thru the head. The
body vas draggeo from the automobile
and carried off. II IL supposed it was
thrown into the canal but 1t has not
been found. @
IN the meantime DR.. Liebknecht was
hurried into another automobile by Of
ficers and troops and the car was
headed for the Moabit prison. While
I going thru the Tiergarten the ma
chine was halted by punctured tire
DR.. I.iebknecht was asked to get out
by. the officers. who intended to hail
another automobile and continue tow
ari the prison.
While waiting DR.. Liebknecht made
an attempt to escape and was shot
dead by soldiers. who had anticipated
such an effort on his part. When he
was arrested at the home OF relative
Yesterday he denied his identity,
Last Desperate Dash.
DR.. Liebknccht's capture was due 10
telephone conversation overheard Gy
detectives, in which he and Rosa Lux
emburg agreed to meet at the home OF
man named Marcusson. In the sub
urb OF Wilmersdorf. Marcussons
home, the police say. has long been
one OF the gathering places OF the
Spartacans.
Dr. Liebknecht's attempts at escape
was <ne last desperate dash for free
.'un on the part OF the man who had
left prison only last October. When
ihe automobile broke down the officer
! in charge asked Dr., Liebknecht who
wa. bleeding from q wound in the head
he had received thru being struck by
some member Of the mob. whether he
felt able to walk to the next street,
where another automobile could De
found.
DR.. Liebknecht said he could and the
party started to walk. When near a
group OF trees DR.. Lfebknecht pushed
aside the soldier nearest him and
dashed for the underbrush in the Tier
garten. The soldiers ordered him to
halt He ignored their comrpsnds and
! several shots were fired at him. One
bullet struck him in the base Of tho
neck, sauareiy between the shoulders,
and his death was virtually instantan-
eous.
Divine JustIes in Osaths.
Virtually the entire Berlin press re-
ga rds the fate Of DR.. Lebknecht and
Rosa Luxembourg the spartacan lead
ers a. having something Of divine Jus
tice. In it," as the Tages Zeituns
phrases II.
OF Dr.. Liebknecht the Loisai Anzei-
\ ger says: He brought his fate upon
himself" Continuing the newspaper
says:
..Tne murder OF Rosa Euxeuifhu 5
shows how tremendous must have been
the indignation which has seized the
people OF Berlin as the result Of the
4 criminal activities of the spartacans.
summary Judgments have ordinarily
been foreign to the German manner
OF thinking.s
i The press IN general deplores the
lynching Of Rosa Luxembourg. but de-
ciares she feii victim to the basesi
passions which she herself had awak-
ened. Die Fheiheit alone tried to lay
the blame upon the government.
This II the fruit Of the policy Of
4 violence Of Ebert. Scheidemann and
.YAnsberg" the newspaper declares. 1T
{. ii the fruit Of the conscienceless Incl
I fations OF vorwaerts and its bour-
goise aids. It Is the work of Gustave
\ Noske ana his military commander.
n ReiIhArdt. Let the blood Of guilt come
upon them. The German proletariat
viii render It's verdict upon them.
The pan German Deutsche Zeitune
@aal ths radical rageblatt alike agree