MURDER GANG IN PARIS

Grey River Argus, 16 December 1937, Page 5

MURDER GANG IN PARIS

GERMANS INVOLVED. BODIES FOUND. PARIS, December 14. The police dug up the body of Jeanne Keller, at the spot indicated by Weidmann, in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Weidmann retracted his confession that he murdered Leblond, for which he blames an associate, named Millions, but Millions denies that he murdered Leblond. The skeleton of an unknown man was found chained 'and padlocked to three trees in a forest at La Feuillerotte, near Dijon. There were empty pnials nearby. It is assumed that the man had been dead for six months, A small bag contained English bank notes, Swedish money, and the card of a Swedish Countess. STOCKHOLM, December 14. The Countess’s visiting card resulted in the identification of the man whose body was found chained to trees in the forest near Dijon (France). She is Countess Kerstin Hamilton. She stated the only person to whom -she had been, give?} a card was a German exiled professor, Doctor Heinrich Hellmund, teacher at Hamburg high school from which he was dismissed because he was a Jew. CRIME IN IRAQ. BAGHDAD, December 14. Search parties at midnight found the body of a Royal Air Force pilot Officer Jones, in the foothills near Lake Habbaniyah. His skull was fractured and he had been stabbed several times. His bicycle was missing. Jones had cycled to the lake from Dhibba Camp early in the evening. THE TRUNK MURDER. MELBOURNE, December-15. Harold John Reeve, aged 37, barman, was charged with having murdered Dempsey.