MURDER WITH SPADE
MAN DISMEMBERS BODY OF MISTRESS BETRAYED BY SON PARIS, Wednesday. A hideous crime has been unearthed at St. Avald, near Metz, Alsace. A ten-year-old boy informed the police that he had seen his father, a German miner named Schenk, murder his mistress with a spade. The lad said that in his presence his father dismembered the body. He buried the woman’s head near the front door of his horde, oast the weighted limbs into a pond, and buried the trunk beneath a bedroom floor. Schenk went to Germany, from where he wrote to his victim’s sister, saying that his mistress was ill, and would not return to St. Avald. The police recovered the buried portions of the woman’s body. Schenk has been arrested.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 9
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126MURDER WITH SPADE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 9
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