MURDER MYSTERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 7

MURDER MYSTERY.

Partly Charred Body Found

By Roadside.

FRENCH CRIME.

((Australian Press Aitn—United Service.)

(Received 10 a.m.)

PARIS, October 18.

A roadside mystery murder has been discovered near Moutiers recalling the Maestorino outrage. The partly charred body of a man named Lazier (25) was found, one hand clutching a tuft of hair, with, nearby, a neatly folded pile of clothing and a paraffin bottle. There were numerous footprints but no signs of wounds. Strangulation was the cause of death.

A stonebreaker saw in the vicinity at midnight a strange light like a large, waving torch.

Malnterino was a jeweller who confessed, after ai*,- examination lasting nearly" 20 hours, to the murder of a man named Truphene, who was found bound and burned, by the roadside at Melun. The murder was committed in Paris, and the body conveyed to where it was found in a car.

REVOLTING OUTRAGE.

Night Club Hostess Brutally

Slain.

TENDERLOIN HORROR.

(United Service.) (Received 10.30 a.m.)

NEW YORK, October 18.

Another weird murder in the notorious Tenderloin district -of the city has engaged the police. The nude body of Mrs. , Harry Wolch, the hostess of a leading Broadway night club, was found in her luxurious apartment with the throat slashed. A knife, a gun and a blood-stained flat iron were lying beside the body.