[Signed] M. Bormann
[Typed] (M. Bormann)
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[Handwritten] War 12
[Enclosure]
JUST MISSED THE SCAFFOLD
10 Years’ Hard Labor for a Pickpocket—Death penalty demanded
Augsburg, 23 May
The 19-year-old Anton Scharff was tried for theft under cover of the black-out before the Special Court of Munich in session in Augsburg. On the evening of 18 April in the Jesuitengasse in Augsburg, the perpetrator snatched the handbag from a young woman as she was going to unlock the door of her house. Upon the woman’s screams for help, the perpetrator was pursued and caught by passers-by. He was sentenced to 10 years’ penitentiary and corresponding loss of civil rights.