WOMEN MURDERED.
AUSTRIAN CRIMINAL CONFESSES. (UNITED PKXSB ASSOCIATION—BT ELJECTKtO TMJSGBAPH—COPVHIOHT;) (Received March Bth, 7 p.m.) ; > VIENNA, March 7. Arrested at Linz on suspicion of murdering a builder's "wife named Louisa Janks (the murder- being described as the most horrible crime in Austrian hfetory), Franz Leithgoeb, aged 58 years, a former butcher, admitted his guilt. He-also confessed to murdering his grandmother in 1920 and five other women since. Two of the victims tyere found dead in their beds, their deaths being attributed to misadventure. Leithgoeb says 'he strangled them. Later he. admitted killing two others in 1916 and in 1920, setting fire to the bodies. The police recall the mysterious deaths of a number of other women who Were strangled, robbed of money and jewellery, and whose deaths they art) endeavouring to trace to Leithgoeb, who served thirteen sentences for robbery.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 15
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140WOMEN MURDERED. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 15
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