KILLED BY SISTER
GERMAN REPROBATE. i United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). COLOGNE, February 11. r ®ie murder of Jalinnn Ivirchner, whose dismembered body, contained in a sack was found floating in the Rhine, has been traced to his twenty-three-yearsokl sister, and his widowed mother. Both of them have confessed Johann was a reprobate. He was sent to a reformatry. When he was discharged, he preyed on his relations threatening them with bodily harm. His sister became wearied of his presecution and .she killed him with an axe while he was sleeping on January 30tli. She burned the head in the kitchen stove, and hacked the body .to pieces, and then, assisted by his mother, she wheeled them in a pern bulateor to the riverside, where she threw them in. A bloodstained coat, which had covered the perambulator led to the discoverey of the crime and the - fession.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1930, Page 6
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