HIDEOUS CRIME
— Press Assn.)
officials rob corpses of air crash victims RUMANIAN SCANDAL
(P»y Telefjraph-
BUCHAREST, Thursday. The Rlayor of the town of Balatsiza and the chief inspector of police v/ere arrested on a charge of robbing and burning the bodies of the six victims of the Paris-Bucharest air liner, which crashed at Sinaia on September 16. It is alleged that the two men ransacked the pockets and luggage of the victims before anyone reached the scene, then ignited the petrol tank of the wrecked liner in order to make it appear that the machine had burst into flames on crashing.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 29, 26 September 1931, Page 3
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101HIDEOUS CRIME Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 29, 26 September 1931, Page 3
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