“RIPPER” MURDERS
BAFFLED POLICE ASK NATION’S HELP PARADOX IN .EX CRIME United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.35 a.m. BERLIN, Wed. The Dusseldorf police have circulated an official mem' • ndum which was sent to all prisons, reformatories r.nd mental asylums in Germany asking help in the search for the “Ripper” murderers. They express the opinion that at least four different persons are concerned in 15 outrages. The police believe the first five outlages were committed by an imbecile youth, Johann Straussberg, who confessed, and is now in an asylum, but four subsequent murders of servant girls were committed by an imitative criminal, whose fiendish instincts were aroused by Straussberg’s example. The Dusseldorf police attribute their failure to catch the murderers to false ideals prevailing in regard to sexual criminals. They declare such criminals are not brutal, rough and violent, but precisely the opposite. Frequently these monsters appear gentle and kind-hearted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 11
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148“RIPPER” MURDERS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 11
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