MYSTERIOUS MURDERS

Evening Star, Issue 22772, 6 October 1937, Page 11

MYSTERIOUS MURDERS

SEARCH FOR SLAYER OF YOUNG COUPLE HEW YORK DETECTIVES ON THE ALERT Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, October 5. (Received October 6, at 10.15 a.m.) . Detectives, fearful of a repetition of the murders of October 3/ secreted themselves throughout the night in suburban highways habitually used by couples, whom they warned not to park motor cars. They watched fruitlessly for the slayer. The questioning of 80 friends of the victims did not disclose clues, but revealed the coincidence that the victims were invited to but did not attend a fraternity dance on the night of the slaying, at which red circles were marked on the wrists of the paying couples to prevent participation by those not paying. [Louis Weiss and Frances Hajek, each aged 19, were found shot dead in a 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 with the girl’s own lipstick on each forehead, with the letters A.I. The police, after failing to find signs of robbery or other motive, recalled apprehensively v the so-called lovers’ land murders in 1930, in which a maniac shot dead three men on each occasion, having previously announced his intention in letters signed with the same symbol.]