TERRIBLE MURDERS.
GYPSIES SENTENCED TO DEATH. LONDON, June 25. The Daily Express's Moscow correspondent says that Anastasia Permiakova, a Gipsy clairvoyant, with her husband and six male and female accomplices, has been sentenced to death for the terrible murders of twenty women and girls. Permiakova escaped from prison during the revolution while serving a murder sentence, and then organised a murder gang, which pillaged villages and held up trains. Afterwards she settled down to clairvoyance at Perm, and had a huge clientele of women, many of whom mysteriously disappeared. The crimes were undetected till Permiakova called at a solicitor's house and told his beautiful daughter's future. She ordered the girl to bare her neck, to see if she had a lucky mark, and then murdered her with a hatchet.
Tlie police found in the woman's flat ten bloodstained hatchets Thirteen other accomplices received long sentences. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1053, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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