KIRCHNER MURDER
MOTHER AND SISTER CONFESS (Received 13th February, 3 p.m.) COLOGNE, 12th February. The murder of Johann Kirchener, whoso dismembered body contained in a sack was found floating on the Bhine, has been traced to his twenty-three-year-old sister and his widowed mother. Both have confessed. Johann was a reprobate and was sent to a reformatory. When he was discharged he preyed on his relations, threatening bodily harm. His sister wearied of the persecution and killed him with an axe while he was sleeping on 30th January. She burned the head in the kitchen stove, hacked the body ; to pieces,
and assisted by her mother wheeled them in a perambulator to the riverside and threw them in. The bloodstained coat which covered the perambulator led to the discovery of the crime and the confession.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 10
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134KIRCHNER MURDER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 10
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