THE RIPPER MURDERERS
DUSSELDORF POLICE ACTIVITIES
(Beceived this day at 8.30. a.m.) ,;f: BERLIN, April 0.
The Dusseldorf'police circulated an official memorandum which sent all prisons reforimi’fofies, and mental asylums in Germany asking help to search, for the Clipper murderers. They express the opinion that at least four different persons... were concerned in the fifteen outrages. The police believe the first.,,five outrages were committed by the imbecile youth, Johann Straussberg,. who confessed aaid is now in an asylum, ibut, the four subsequent ~murders of servant girls were by . an imitative criminal, whose fiendish .instincts were aroused (by Straussberg’s .. example. The Dusseldorf . police attribute the failure to catch''..the .murderers to false ideals prevailing in regard to sexual criminals', ' They declare such criminals are not, brutal, rough and vigilant but p'ricisely the opposite. Frequently these ‘ monsters appeal to the' gentle nnd, c l>ind.-hearted.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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141THE RIPPER MURDERERS Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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