The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-31

ganization and the commander of the IA men who seized the chan celery in the revolt of last week, was charged with complicity. Both were charged with nigh treason.
 Planetta Made Speech
 Before the judges retired to standing rigidly at attention, said quietly:
 q am no cowardly murderer. l intended to kill nobody"
 (In his testimony yesterday Planetta said that someone logged his arm while he was near Doll fuss, and caused his pistol to dis charge. Experts said the gun could not have been discharged in that manner.)
 Hanging in Austria is even a grimmer affair than in most other countries.
 In the courtyard of prisons there is short post. Condemned men, the moose about their neck, are raised to a hook, and there left to dange sometimes for minutes, their limbs twitching in their death agonies. There is no drop.
 Lawyer Fought Hard
 Planetta and Holzweber were convicted after an interesting trial. Their lawyer was named Fuehrer the name Header by which Adolf Hitler, the supreme Nazi, is called. He fought every inch of the way. He tried to call as witnesses Pres- ident Wilhelm Miklas and Kurt Rieth, recalled German minister, to prove his only plea-that the 144 Nazis who seized the chancel- lery and precipitated the nation- wide revolt were promised safe conduct to the German border, if they surrendered.
 The government answer was that the promise, admittedly made, was upon the provision that no blood was shed. It was not known then that Dollfuss was bleeding tu death on a sofa in the yellow room of the chancellery.
 First War Challenge
 The first Nazi death sentences and the challenge to civil war came little less than 23 hours after the last of the Nazi rebels made their way across the Jugo- slavian frontier, to be interned.
 Coincident with the sentence. came reports that the government intended to make the yellow room in which Dollfuss was shot a sor of shrine, leaving on the floor the blood that dripped from him anG lighting the room with a perpetua light. It was said that the square fronting the chancellery probably would be named Dollfussplatz m, stead of Ballhausplatz.
 The end of the trial came quickly today. It had been ad journed at midnight. Judges, law yers and defendants appeared ex hausted at the resump ption, but tn, defendants had shaven themselves They Had five-day boards yester day.
 The principal witness today wa. Major General Bummerer. an arms expert, who testified that the pis tol identified as Planetta's was tn. only one among 69 seized from tn, twice.
 Relatives in Tears As the climax neared, Planetta's Wil0 anu SlSteI-lH-IdW SODDeu 1T the back row of the dusty littl, criminal courts room building seating 60 some people. At the end, Planetta rose tC make his statement.
 Tt is awful for me-" he said that my bullet hit the chancellor I beg the forgiveness of Frau Doll fuss"
 (Frau Dollfuss, heartbroken, lef Vienna yesterday afternoon eol Riccione to join her two little chil dren, Eva and Rudolph. for whom | Signora Benito Mussolini is caring They do not know their father i | dead).
 After Planetta, Holzweber, sub |. .commandant in the unexplained absence of the real rebel leader whom the defendants refused l'