SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
DEATHS OF MANY WOMEN, GERMAN ON TRIAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received July 2, 5j5 pm. Berlin, July 30. Sensational disclosures were made at the trial of an elderly butcher named Karl Grossmann, described as a German “Jack the Ripper.” He was charged with the murder of three women, whom he enticed to a fiat on the pretence of employment as domestics. The disappearance of more than 20 women is attributed to him. He is further accused of entiejng an additional 50 women and children to the flat, but they fortunately escaped. It is alleged Grossmann met his victims at the railway station and afterwards cut their bodies to pieces and threw them info the river Spree or canals. He passed the time in his cell writing his autobiography, in which lie declares that surplus women have become a social and economic pest and by destroying some he had Rendered service to society.—Aus.-N.'Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1922, Page 5
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156SENSATIONAL CHARGES. Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1922, Page 5
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