Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-18
MODS MUT|LA?E BODY
OF SLAIN RED LEADER
Remains OF Rosa Luxembourg Float
I'm Murky Waters OF Land
wcllr Canal,
LIEBKNECHT CORPSE GUARDED
Thing Ebert Government Has Feared
Most Has Come to Pnss and Ter
rorism Received Incentive Which
Has Been Guarded Against.

BERLIN. January 1.-THE frail
body Of Rosa Luxembourg. horribly
mutilated by the marks of a lynching
mob. floats tonight somewhere in the
murky waters OF the Landwehr canal.
me corpse of her master and COM
: Td az, IN terrorist warfare. DR.. Karl
morgnc In darkest Berlin. heavily
guarded by government troops, for the
The thing that the. Ebert govern
ment has feared most has come to
pass; terrorism has received the In
want TO give the Spartacans any mar
yrs mas the government carefully re
and Red Rosa" True, the murder
Of these two is not to TIC credited to
the government's account: they we're
of mobs who saw in them the de-
liberate and wanton destroyers OF
what Is left of the wreck OF the en-
pirc. But the unreasoning masses will
blame the government nevertheless.
sNATCllED FROM GUARDS
WHILE ON WAY TO PRISON
that both were In III. custody OF gov
ernment squads. and both on the way
TO prison when mobs snatchcd them
from the midst of the heavy guards
and took the law into their hands.
Atter tional escapes. which for
hrd TIM wi WIPED d. gu, all traees-.Lieh-
the two .rejoined yesterday at the home
of of ,, Sisgf s,r Marsuss2n. at ~ Mann
sation had tipped the government
as TO their rendezvous
"Aut Wiedcrschcn Mt Marcusson's."
tappers.
Rosa managed to escape from Mar
c ,u home when the troops arrived
hight ended at The Ilo,el Eden. There
fate so brutal and bloody as 10
recall the killing Of witches in the
Middle Ages overlook her.
Die Rote Rosa" was the cry that
OF Western Berlin, bringing "a mob
of thousands TO the hosiery where
the woman tried to hide. Government
her ne wan eFhwn t6ny paGsd
on the threshold a thousand arms
reached out, and within. a few sec
OF men and women become beasts:
Shots were fired Mt her canes. clubs,
hatpins. finger nails and even women's
teeth were used in the orgy Of mad
death. Blood streamcd from scores
"f wounds. but II WAS hardly distin--
Fuishablv from the brilliant crimson OF
Death did not satisfy the lynchers
A couple of men threw her body into
a machine and whizzed her OF. They
didn', &c, beyond a block, The street
was thick with people, and they threw
themselves into the automobiles path.
some 20 have morbid look at Red
Rosa" but most ot them to do fur
ther violence 10 the corpse.
DEALT DEAD BODY
Men and women reached into the
car and kept on dealing smashing
blows TO the dead woman, already mu-
tilatcd beyond recognition. Unmerci-
fully they kept up their barbarouS
work. a hoodlurn jumped on the side
board, climbed on top OF the machine
and fred revolver shots into the body.
Then they dragged II out of the car
and threw il into the Lnndwehr canal.
Meanwhile. l.iebkmecht was meeting
a similar end but far less grueSome.
Unlike his frail, deformed woman
lieutenant. who never once denied her
identity or her cause, the powerfully
built ex-soldicr tried to the last TO
masquerade. AT Marcusson's house he
told the troops he was not the man
they were seeking. This failed to
saw him. CnmiStakahlc marks OF
recognition were identified. and he
was carried off toward Moabit prison
in a machine. In the geological gar
dens the automobile broke down. The
party got out to wait for another car.
Here Leibknccht saw his last chance
He started TO run. For this the soldiers
guarding him had been waiting. Half
Il dozen rcvolvers were fired stimuli
taneously Three bullets struck him,
one resulting in instant death.