Mt r RI>HHKHS’ TRICK. PARIS, Manli 7
Criminals seem to have adopted veiy quickly the idea that n dee "pi La led Lully is extremely difficulty to identity. TUis was proved last year when the* p<>lice searched for several months and fi ileil lo identify the headless body of a young woman which haff been thrown into the Seine. On several occasions sine” then criminals have resorted to this means when disposing of the body of their victim. The latest case is the body of a young girl believed to have been a pro. fessional dancer found in the river near Manriae, in the Cantnl Department. The head is missing and according to medical exports the murderer after killing the girl inflicted several slight razor cuts pit tile body. The body was crushed as though it had been forced into a trunk.
Inquiries throughout the region have so fa r failed to bring to light the dis appearance of any girl, anil it is thought that it will he a task of some difficulty to identify the body, which had probably been brought by motor car from some distant town.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1922, Page 1
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