GERMAN JACK THE RIPPER.
20 WOMEN MURDERED. BODIES THROWN INTO RIVER. BERLIN, July 2. Sensational disclosures were made at the trial of an elderly butcher, named Karl Grossmann, described as the "German Jack the Ripper," who is charged with the murder of three women whom he enticed to his flat on a pretence of giving them employment as domestic servants. The death and disappearance of more than twenty women is attributed to Grossmann, and he is further accused of enticing to his flat fifty other women and children, who fortunately escaped.
It is alleged that Grossmann met his victims at the railway station, and afterwards cut their bodies to pieces and threw them into the River Spree or canals.
He had passed his time in his cell writing an autobiography, in which he declares that surplus women have become a social pest and by destroying some he has rendered a service to society.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.))
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 5
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GERMAN JACK THE RIPPER.
Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 5
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