GIPSIES ADMIT CANNIBALISM.
CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN TRIAL.
(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION—BT K.ECTRIC TELEGRAPH-^COPTBIGHT.) (Received July 18th, 7.30 p.m.) PRAGUE, July 17. After a most sensational trial of 19 gipsies, 14 were found guilty and will bo sentenced on Saturday. The prisoners were utterly debased, and confessed to coldblooded crimes with the utmost callousness. Their victims were chiefly of tho Jewish pedlar class. Some of the crimes were entirely without purpose, except the desire for a cannibalistic orgy.—Australian Press Association. . [A message on May 22nd stated that 17 men and two women, members of a gipsy band which had terrorised Moldavia, had commenced. The gip^ 3 had murdered men, women, and children on the smallest provocation, and though the total number of their victims was unknown, the prosecution had traced dozens of murders. Filke, the leader of the gang, confessed that he had participated in cannibalistic orgies, and others admitted that they had eaten human flesh when suffering privations.]
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19675, 19 July 1929, Page 11
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