HIDEOUS CRIME.
Man Murders Mistress With Spade. YOUNG BOY'S STORY. PARIS, March 13. A hideous crime has been unearthed j at St. Avald, near iletz. Alsace. A ten-vear-okl bov informed the police mat lie had seen his father, a German miner named Schenk, murder his mistress w:tn a spade. , . , . The lad said that m his presence his father dismembered the body. Re buried the woman's head near the front door of his home, cast the weighted limbs into a pond find buried the timirw beneath a bedroom floor. Schenk went to Germany, irom where he wrote to his victims sister saying that his mistress was ill and would not return to St. Avald. The police recovered the buried portions of the woman's body. Schenk has been arrested.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 62, 14 March 1930, Page 7
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