POLICE BAFFLED.
Young Couple Found Shot in
Motor Car.
MYSTERY SYMBOLS ON DEAD. KEW YORK, October 4. Louis Weiss and Frances Hajek, each aged 19, were found fatally shot in a motor car on a suburban highway. The girl had also been stabbed seven times, apparently with an ice-pick.
A mysterious circular symbol had been crudely drawn on the forehead of each of the deceased with a lipstick.
The police, not having found signs of robbery or other motive for the tragedy, have recalled with apprehension the so-called "Lovers' Lane" murders of 1930, when a maniac fatally shot three men, on each occasion having previously announced his intention in letters signed with a symbol. It is feared that this maniac was responsible for the present crime.
The couple's rings and wrist-watches were not taken. There is a mental hospital near the scene which the police visited, but the authorities said none of the inmates was missing.
Powder burns on the forehead of Weiss, who was slumped over the steering wheel, indicated that a 23 calibre gun had been fired at him at close range.
The couple had been missing for 12 hours before their bodies were found, but their parents' did not notify the police owing to their belief that the pair had eloped.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 7
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