WHOLESALE MURDERS.
t i DREADFUL RUSSIAN WOMAE r y KILLS TWENTY PEOPLE. LOXDON, June 20. The Moscow correspondent of tli "Daily Express" says that a wonia Permiakova, a sipsy clairvoyant, and hr husband, together with six male an female accomplices, have been sentence to death for murdering 20 women an girls. Permiakova escaped from priso during the revolution while .-he was spring a sentence for murder. Shn the organised a murder gane, which pillage villages and held up trains. 1C I Afterwards the woman settled dow !5 as a clairvoyante at Perm. East Russi o- She had a luise clientele of women, man n- of whom mysteriously disappeared. e-' Her crimes were undetected till Permi; I kova called at solicitor's house and to his beautiful daushtfir's future. •She told the girl to bare her neck i see if she had a lucky mark. She th< murdered her with a hatchet. The police found in the woman* fli '1. ten bloodstained hatchet*. Thirt«< id other accomplices received long sentenc lof imprisonment.— (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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