New-York tribune., 1922-06-30
Berlin Arrests
80 i'm Rathenau
Murder Pot
Two Officers, One n Sup
posed Assassin, Other
Driver of Car, Seized in
Roundup in High Places
Letters Involve Royalisis
Ring That Planned Killing
ofAll Republican Leaders
Linked TO Junker Chiefs
By Joseph Shaplen

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Canyffhi. 1922. New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN. June %. More than eighty
conspirators and their abettors IN the
plot that resulted in the assassination
Of DR.. Walther Rathcnau, Foreign MIN
istcr. fell to-day into a net spread
throughout the country by the Prussian
police Heading the list is Lieutenant
Ernst Werner Techow. one o. the sup
posed assassins, who was taken near
Frankfort and brought 70 Berlin to-
dav. and Lieutenant William Gunthcr.
driver Of tho automobile which carried
the murdcrcrs Of Rathcnau. Four
other men. all members OF the notori.
Gus organization &C" which carried
out the assassination % Erzberger and
the attempt on Schoidcmsun's life ana
who are directly implicated IN Rath-
cnnu's murder. are among those seized
Some of the foremost of the old re-
sime are implicated directly or lndi'
roctly b. the evidence uncarthcd by
the nolicc Thus In Gunther's home
tho police found numerous letters from
Karl Hciacrich, General Ludendorf,
Count Wostarp and Won Jagow, show
ing the source of the Inspiration tor
the murderous work.
400 Murders Unpublished
Az army os detectives and policemen,
IL ia announced. arc on the way 20 the
hiding places Of two other assaSsins:
and their arrest is only a question Oh
hours. The entire country is shocked
by the revelations OF the police, vhien
nrouire % become even moro seasa 1,
,loral and % reveal the forces beh.r1
the monarchist clmorra which dar.nS
,be las. three years has carried out
yir,uallv unpunished nearly 900 muir
ders OF champions a tho repYolie.
pefore tke nolice wcIk IS completed
,bo cour.-y will Re astonistcd % near
The names Of some Of Germany leHH'
inc industriaiists, agTaTians and con-
servativos - being engaged N A s3s-
tomatic murder campaign.
Including Prince Henry, nc iormcI T
Kaiser's brother. the chief e.c@e.
bchind the monarch!st reigr o. fef.o9
arc former officers and uniyer-i'y s,Y-
dents. All the eulpr.,s taken io'a.tf,
arc both army and college men AZ
were in the Kapp uprising ~ 1870.
Doeuments taeon by tho police reveal
great nlo. 70 assassiratc al repuo-
lean leaders and al prominent ad.o
co,ss Of an undertaking "ita tHe
r-.on.o The Nationalist party is 50
boJlv i-iurod b. the police discoveries
49, 'i.s eornle.e wiping out Is no" pe-
iievod likeiv. Bavaria's connection
with the country-w.de cemorra Is
shorn rarticularly in Gunthers case,
tho oolice having documents showin s
! TIA. he was a courier between PRUSSIA
and Bavaria.
Shielded BY Partisan Press
The Nationalist ard Conservative
newspapers. which as late as yestera..
: sought % spread the Legend t%nas %
Rathenau fell by the hands OF tne
Russians. to-day suppressed all po,ice
Information involving the Natlona1lsss
n.r.y and HelFerich and LudendorN
The Socialist and Democratic press, on
.be o,her hand. features these IN strlS-
inc manner. with the demands ot tne
Socialists for a dissolution OF tue
Reich stag and o general election,
After the police revelations ana the
announcements of the arrests NC "a.
,tionalist leaders met In the helonstas
ard demanded the immediate ekpuisioh
~ All their members involved. rs
sc,ion h believed TOO late 20 save the
party. however.
HclFerich's corresponiencc with Gun,
thor. IL IS believed, ends the poiitica'
earee- of the stormy petrol of German.
Particularly ironic appears his oh.t
las. night OF 1000 marks. supplement
inc the police offer Of 900 marx:
for the capture Of the assa.lant5 Of
Ratherau. The police refused tne o.
for. saving II looked too much IKE
bribo 20 DO just the opposite.
The remarkably quick work OF the
police in laying bare the whole mon,
archi-t conspiracy has provoked w,ild
on,husiasm throughout the republic
To.day's arrests and the material u,n-
carthed. Il is believed, will prove TO be
a blow that no monarchist movement
could survive. Particularly bad lignt
l. thrown on universities, which are
shown 70 be nests of murderers and as
sassins. Only yesterday the student s
M Karlsruhe held a mock funeral ~
Ra,henau and danced way daree'
shouting "Wirth next" Ore OF the re-
suit, OF the present revelations Is ex'
pcctcd % be a movement FOR the dem
oeratization % German universities.