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1RETRIAL ORDEREDIN ROTHKRUG CASE(Continued from Page One)! invI\! entered a private West Berlin, textile firm. was at that firm that Armv agents claimed thev found thousands of top secret, documents which allegedly had been missing from the files of the Berlin Mill-tarv Intelligence detacRmcnt Xantes of persons working as anti-communist agents in the east were reported among them.The trial was closed to the press on the grounds . of “seem it ya measure which Rothkrug and his lawyer protested without result.The Appeals court ruling today did not say where or when the new trial Would he conducted. TheAmerican court svsteni in Germanv*• •is presently in the last stages of a “phase-out’’ ar.d is finishing a backlog of appeals, but not hearing any new cases.Th* Appeals court finding said it was “of the opinion that prejudicial errors were committed by the trial court. It is therefore ordered that the findings of guilty and the sentence imposed upon the appellant, Michael R. Rothkrug. be in the same hereby set aside and this case is remanded to the trial court forretrial.”The findings were signed by two of the three Appeals court justices.Carl W. Fulghum. of Glen wood Springs. Colo., and Carl A. Turtnb, of Milwaukee, YVis. i v
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Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Wed, Mar 16, 1955
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