HEADLESS BODY.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1922, Page 1

HEADLESS BODY.

RERUN, March 7. A mysterious crime is engaging the attention of the railway police. Yesterday evening a young man, accompanied by a quietly dressed- woman, wheeled up to the station at Leipzig, whore the annual fair has just opened, a handcart containing a largo travellingbox. The woman told two porters to take the box to the train for Halle and said she would get the tickets find meet them on the platform. She had not appeared when the train steamed out of the station, and the box was therefore not put in the luggage van. As the woman did not return, the porters told the station police, the box was opened, and inside, under a thick layer of brown paper, was found the headless body of a man. The murdered man was well dressed, fie had a gold watch and chain, and his pocket-book contained money. From the notebook in his pocket, with the addresses of many customers, it was found that he was engaged in the fur trade and also doing a trade in chocolate. The woman and young man who brought the box to the station have disappeared. What is .their secret? What was the motive of the crime? -Where is the head of the victim ? This is the mystery which the rpilway police are trying to solve.