Berlin, Dec. 7.
After three days of official refusal to comment on the incident, a semi official statement was issued to-day describing the so-called Ernst testament as a complete forgery such as frequently appeared in the emigres Air and sea collaboration betwee the Imperial Airways and the Cunard-White Star was announced in London on Dee. 5, Wilkesbarre, Pa,, Dec. 3.
The final bitter chapter in Theodore Dreiser's "American Tragedy" will soon be enacted in real life, following the pronouncement to-day of death in the electric chair upon 23-year-old Robert Edwards, Edwards, a mining engineer and self-styled' "Ladies' man," was tried Jand found guilty on October 6, of "slugging" to death with a blackjack Miss Freda McKechnie, his sweetheart and an expectant mother. The girl's death occurred on July 30 while she and Edwards were swimming Hervey's Lake.
The similarity ofthe case to Dreiser's stim novel, "American Tragedy," gave it wide publicity and Mr. Dreiser himself covered the trial for a leading New York newspaper.
'The date for Edwards' execution, has out been announced—Reuter.
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