MURDER MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 21751, 20 June 1934, Page 9

MURDER MYSTERY

BODY IN TRUNK LEFT AT RAILWAY STATION Tress Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, June 19. 'A cheap brown fibre trunk which was left at Brighton station was opened by railway officials. It contained a female body without the head and limbs. Later a suit case was found at King s Cross station. It contained a woman s head and feet, which are believed to belong to the same person. The Brighton trunk was deposited on Jnne 6 and the King’s Cross suit case on June 7. The American police recently requested Scotland Yard to search for a trunk presumably containing the body of Agnes Tufverson, an American lawyer, who has been missing since she married Captain Ivan Poderjaz. The latter was detained at Vienna, where he was accompanied by Suzanne Ferrand/whom he married in London in 1933. He married Tuf verson in New York later in the same year.

The Vienna police have detained Suzanne Ferrand, who admitted that a trunk in her flat and its contents belonged to Tufverson. The ‘ Daily Mail ’ announces that investigation established that the Brighton discovery was not connected with the Poderjaz case, because the Brighton trunk was deposited on June 6, whereas since Tufverson disappeared in November her body could not have remained undetected for so long.

VICTIM IN THE TWENTIES SIR BERNARD SPILSBURY’S OPINION. 1 LONDON, June 19. (Received June 20, at 12.20 p.m.) Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Home Office Pathologist), held a post-mortem examination of the body. An analysis of the organs revealed that tho victim was in the twenties instead of the ferities as originally supposed. Death had occurred within three weeks. He was of opinion that the legs discovered at King’s Cross belonged to the body.