With the Nazi agent who confessed kidnaping him into Germany under sentence of three years’ imprisonment, Berthold Jakob, refugee German-Jewish journalist, was reported today to have been taken to the French border after conclusion of the trial because he had no visa. Jakob, who was deported from Switzerland last September on his release from Germany, was permitted to return here for the trial.
The attorney for Hans Wesemann, the Nazi agent convicted of abducting Jakob from Switzerland in March, 1935, prepared to appeal the decision. The prosecutor had asked a two years’ sentence in view of Wesemann’s confession which, he said, made it possible to secure Jakob’s release, but the judge in imposing sentence said he would make an example of Wesemann. Maximum penalty under the law is eight years’ imprisonment.
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