Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-17
Red Leaders Killed
in Civil Revolt
in Berlin
LURED FROM
THEIR HOTEL
Woman Beaten Into
MsenSibiity; Shot
in Head
By Associated Press

Berlin, Jan. 17.-Dr. Karl
|Licbknecht and Rosa Luxem-
bourg have been killed.
When it became known yes
terday that DR.. Liebknecht and
Rosa Luxembourg were at the
Hotel Eden, in the western part
+ of the city a crowd stormed the
hotel lobby. Both were spirited
to a side entrance to the hotel,
but the mob forestalled the attempt
of the troops to save Fraulein
I.uxmebourg. She was beaten into
irsensibility and then thrown into
pn automobile by the crowd, which
intended to take her to prison.
Machine Halted by Mob
\ few blocks down the street, the
machine was halted by a second mob
nd when the presence of Fraulein
luxembourg became known, a man
Jumped on the runningboard of the
tar and shot her through the head.
'he body was dragged from the au-
omobile and carried off. 1t is sup
bosed that it was thrown into the
anal, but it has not been found.
Licbknccht Tries to Escape
In the meantime, DR.. Liebknecht
Kas hurried into another automobile
by officers and troops and the car
HAS headed for the Moabit prison.
While going through the Tiergarten,
he machine was halted by pune
ured tire. DIR. Liebknecht was asked
o get out by the officers, who in
ended to hail another automobile
nd continue toward the prison.
While waiting, DIR. Liebknecht at
empted to escape and was shot dead
" soldiers. who had anticipated such
n effort on his part.
When DR.. Liebknecht was arrested
the home of a relative in Mann
elmer strasse yesterday morning he
toutly denied his identity. After
|eing escorted to the Eden Hotel, he
as searched and his monogram,
X. L." was discovered on his shirt
Phone Talk Betrays
DR. Liebknechts capture was due
b a telephone conversation overheard
detectives in which he and Rosa
luxembourg agreed to meet at the
ONE of a man named Marcusson in
*he suburb of Wilmersdorf. Marcus
on's home the police say, has long
cen one OF the gathering places of
he Spartacans.
When the automobile which was
hrrying him to prison broke down
y was warned against any attempt
flight. The officer in charge ask
d DR.. Liebknecht, who was bleeding
rom a wound in the head he had re-
eived through being struck by a
hn in the hands of some member of
1e mob, whether he felt able to walk
few hundred yards to the next
rect where a new automobile could
found.
Makes Dash For Liberty
DR.. Lebkneckt said he could. and
ne party started to walk. When
ear a group of trees DIR. Leibknecht
nd dashed for the underbush in the
iergarten. The soldiers ordered him
halt. He paid no attention to
heir demands and several shots were
the base of the neck, squarely be-
yeen the shoulders, and his death
as virtually instantaneous.
Amsterdam, Jan. 17.-Officers COM
anding the troops escorting DR..
arl Lieblknecht and Rosa LuXem-
ourg when those two radical lead
IS were killed have been provision
ly arrested. according to a Berlin
spatch received here. which adds
,at all persons implicated in the
cident will be severely punished.
Basic, Thursday, Jan. 16.-Karl
autsky, former under secretary in
he foreign affairs ministry of the
bert government and more recently
lid to be a supporter of DR.. Karl
eblSnecht, was arrested at Berlin
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