MURDER MYSTERIES.
PARIS POLICE PERPLEXED London, April 12.
A Paris message states that the police are nonplussed by a dual murder having similar remarkable features. A. wealthy retired merchant named Dos Pardins, living at Versailles, disappeared. A trunk minus the head and legs was recovered from the Seine, and it was believed to he-his. The Magistrate allowed ibe hand to be cut off in order to confront the merchant's wife and son-in-law, who were suspected of Ihe crime. Both positively identified Mm hand as (bat of Des Jardins. On Mm following day Dos Jardins anmut Slated corpse was recovered from another part ot llie river. Ine ifrst corpse was encased in an American military sleeping-bag. it was wearing English under-clothing of a brand used by the British Air Service.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2123, 4 May 1920, Page 4
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129MURDER MYSTERIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2123, 4 May 1920, Page 4
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