Public posters concerning the execution
of Polish murderers sentenced to death.
"Notice. On Saturday, 14 October 1939, the following persons,
who were sentenced to death for murder and/or breach of the public peace
by the Special Court in Bromberg on 11 October 1939, have been executed:
1. Teofil Prus, of Jannowitz, near Znin, 27 years of age, tailor's apprentice,
2. Adalbert Zielenkiewicz, of Jannowitz, 46 years of age, tailor,
3. Leo Papierski, of Jannowitz, 36 years of age, labourer.
On 3 September, 1939, the accused had taken part in an attack by a Polish gang
on the German store in Jannowitz near Znin, in the course of which
eight members of the German minority were arrested and subsequently murdered.
Prus and Papierski were convicted of acts of violence committed against
German women, and against a German who had already been knocked down.
Zielenkiewicz was convicted of having incited the mob to murder.
Bromberg, 14 October 1939.
The Public Prosecutor with the Special Court."
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