'LEGS IN THE TRAIN’ MYSTERY
FOREIGN LEGION INQUIRY. EFFORT TO INTERVIEW RECRUIT (TJnlt#d Tnm Association—By Klectrlo Telegraph Dopy right.) LONDON, March 4. A clue in the “legs in the train” mystery—the discovery under a seat of a suburban train at Waterloo sta-' tion on February 25 of a brown paper parcel containing a man’s legs skilfully severed at the knee —led 1 a Scotland Yard detective from Dover to Calais, and he is now'inquiring a<*/the Foreign Legion depot at Toul, says the Daily Mail. It is understood that he hopes to interview a recruit who enlisted recently at Dunkirk. The case might raise the important question whether a legionary can be questioned 1 by anyone except officers of the Legion, in which, those who enlist lose their identity,
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 11
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