REMARKABLE CRIME
RELIGIOUS MANIAC’S ACT SON’S HEAD SEVERED (Cinited Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright) 1 BERLIN, Bth January. Religious mania was lesponsible for a remarkable crime in a Berlin suburb when a municipal official, a member of a religious sect, whose followers claim to cure sickness by the application of cream cheese, brutally severed the head of his two-year-old son. When arrested he said: “I am Isaac, and my father Abraham sacrificed me to the Lord 4COO years ago. In my son I recognised the rein carnation of Abraham, so I killed him out of revenge.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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95REMARKABLE CRIME Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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