PARIS MURDER MYSTERY.
SEVERED BODY IN RIVER. SIMILAR CRIMES IN BERLIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 23, 9.5 p.m, London, August 23. The Daily Express’ Paris correspondent states that the police there are engaged on the reconstructon and elucidation of & strange murder mystery. An angler fished out from the river Seine two beautifully shaped arms, which had been hacked off from a body at the shoulders. A day later another angler found two legs and finally the headless body of a young girl was found. The portions were taken to the morgue for an assembly of the scattered remains. So far there is no clue to the identity of the body.
By a curious coincidence a similar series of “Jack the Ripper” crimes is reported from Berlin, where the bodies of two women were found in the river Spree, making a total of five discovered dur. ng the last few days. A butcher named Carl Grossman was arrested in the act of battering an aged woman to death while she was lying in bed bound and gagged. The police later found evidence connecting Grossman with the other atrocities. Among the police discoveries was a trunk which had been used to carry away the bodies of the victims.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1921, Page 5
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209PARIS MURDER MYSTERY. Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1921, Page 5
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