POLICE BAFFLED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 9

POLICE BAFFLED

DUSSELDORF MURDERS

CITY IN FRENZY OF TERROR

MAIN TRAIT OF MANIA

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright,

BERLIN, 12th November.

According to a report from Dusseldorf, Baron yon Zigesa, Chief of the Dusseldorf Police, declares: "I cannot sleep at night. I awake from nightmares in which I think I am the 'Kipper' in the act of committing a horrible murder."

Baron yon Zigesa's state of mind is characteristic of the panic-stricken city. Beneath tho outward calm Dusseldorf is in a frenzy of hysterical terror. If a child is ten minutes late the mother telephones the overworked police, imploring them to send a search party. The newspaper offices are besieged all day by people who think they have clues. Hundreds of sinister rumours are current that the bodies of children and girls have been found. Half-de-mented men give themselves up to the police accusing themselves of being the "Ripper," but are always completely innocent.

Meantime the "Ripper," with a brazen love for sensation, which is the main trait of his mania, proclaims in a second letter to a newspaper that he will surrender to the police when his victims number thirty. To-day the police began digging in a field indicated in the "Ripper's" map. They- did not find a body, but located a number of articles which are considered to be important.