Murdered for Their Clothes
LONDON, Dec. 13. The discovery of a girl hound naked to a' chair at a Dusseldorf house and ahou't to' be murdered by three yoimg Germans has set the police on the track of a German gang ? which is believed to have murdered 30 Dusseldorf persons for their clothes, says the British United Press Dusseldorf correspondent. A blind (beggar stopped a girl and asked her to deliver ,a letter. She asked a policeman the way to the address and fie recognised it as the house which had been the scene of several recent "missing persons" cases. The policeman several minutes after the girl had delivered the letter , callQd patrol cars, raided the house and found her tied to' a chair. Sev- I eral buckets containing human re- ■ mains are said to have been found in ' the house.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 December 1948, Page 5
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141Murdered for Their Clothes Chronicle (Levin), 15 December 1948, Page 5
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