THE TRUNK MYSTERY
MANY WOMEN MISSING PROBLEIYI FOR DETECTIVES. ESTABLISHIN G IDENTITY.
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(Received June 26, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 26. Forty thcusand women and girls are annuailly recorded as piissing in the police records in Britain. This fact indicates the difficulties facmg the detectives in the Brighton trnnk crime and they are still without a clue as to the identity of the woman murdered and are unable to discover the head of the victim. A cheap brown fibre trunk which had been left at Brighton staticn was opened by the railway officials on June: 18 and was found to ccntain a female body, lacking head and limbs. Later a suitcase was found at King's Cross station containing a woman's head and feet, believed to belong to the same person. The Brighton trunk was deposited cn June 6 and the King's Cross suitcase on June 7. The Americaai police reoently requested Scotland Yard to search for a trunk presumably contaiping the body of Agnes Tufverson, an American woman lawyer, who :is missing after marrying Captain Ivan Poderjiaz. Captain Poderjaz has been detained at Vienna, where he was accompainiecl by Suzanne Ferrand, whom he married in London in 1933. He married Miss Tufverson ln New York later in the same year. The Vienna police have also detained Suzanne Ferrand, who allegedly admitted that a trunk in her flat, and its contents, belonged to Miss Tufversgn. The Daily Mail amnounees that the investigaticn has establisned that the Brighton discovery is not connected with the Poderjaz case, because the Brighton trunk was deposited o.n June 6, whereas, since Miss Tufverson disappeared in November, her body could not iremain undetected for so long. Sir Bernard Spilsbury held a pcstmortem. His analysis of the organs revealed that the victim was in her t went ies, instead of the forties as originally supposed, while death had cccurred within three weeks. He is of opinion that the legs discovered at King's Cross belong to the body.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 5
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334THE TRUNK MYSTERY Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 5
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