AMAZING CRIME
MURDER DONE TO SECURE INSURANCE BODY IN BURNED CAR Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Friday. “The Times” correspondent a,t Ber- 1 lin says that, finding a deserted and burned motor-car, in which was a. man’s charred body, on a country road near Regensburg, the police assumed that it was an accident. They identified the man through the car’s number-plate. The wife claimed the body as her husband, and took it to Leipzig for burial; but the police became suspicious, and watched the wife, and caught her telephoning her husband at Strasbourg, where he was arrested. It is alleged that he confessed to murdering an unknown man on a public highway, that he set fire to the car with the body inside, and then went to leged that the crime was' committed to enable the wife to secure her husband’s life insurance of £7,250.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11
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144AMAZING CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11
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