LUST AND MURDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1922, Page 5

LU ST AND MURDER

BRITAIN’S CRIME WAVE. SERIES OF SENSATIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assouan m LONDON, March 11. I. An extraordinary crime wave is sweeping oyer England, including many mysterious murders which are ’ baffling the police. Prominent among the crimes are illicit love affairs.. Some are ending in double suicidvs, i- and others in murders. d AVithin the past fortnight, several such cases have been reported. Hie ■wife of a prominent Alanchester business man ran off with a skating rink ' instructor and the pair occupied a 11 cottage in a Hampshire village as a 0 honeymoon couple. They were not seen for several days, after which the police discovered their dead bodies in a bedroom. Another couple, a married man and a single woman made a double suicicL pact, took poison and entered the sea lat Southend. The man was drowned i but the woman cheated death. j A married curate and his lover t drank poison in champagne at a Nottingham hotel, and both died. Another inexplicable affair was a case wherein two lovers were eloping in a train when suddenly the man shot the girl and weapon on himself. He expired, but the gir! ! was not serio’iisly hurt. t There have been numerous gas tragedies, wherein couples have died 1 together. An unmarried, mother at Chelsea, and her two sons, died from i gas poison. The verdict against the I woman was suicide and,double murt der. t A verdict of murder was returned against a young man who was accused ’ of strangling a girl at Brixton with J a silk stocking. A labourer was sent tenccd to death for murdering a .’ woman of 79, an old age pensioner t of Holbein. A youth was s milarly sentenced for murdering his fiancee at Clapton and a boy is awaiting trial for giving his father a fatal blow after the latter struck his mother. A widow of 59, living alone at Henley, on the Thames, who was in con- ; st'ant dread of a man residing abroad [ was found murdered. The police suggest that deceased met the murderer while travelling either to Cana--1 da or to Australia. On the day pre- ’ eding the tragedy, she left instruc- ! tions regarding her money. A sensation_of moment concerns the L death of a beautiful girl, a West End ! dancer, who was believed to be a victim of the drug habit; and the ’ dbatli of another girl in connection with which a married airman is ) apprehended. “JACK THE RIPPER.” — '■ [ PARIS, March IIParis is. experiencing a startling number of what the French describe , as crimes ot passion. ‘ Poland is terrorised by a modern • “Jack the Ripper.” Within three weeks the bouTes of nine girls were found mutilated. ANOTHER “MOVIE” AIURDER. NEAV YORK, March 12. Another mysterious movie murder is reported. John Brunen, theatrical promoter, and a friend of Taylor, who ‘ was recently inurderecl. was found shot at Camden, near Jersey, 'three : suspicious-looking men were noticed near his home. A sawn-off shotgun, with which the crime was appar- , ently committed, has been discovered.