GERMAN HORROR
“RIPPER” MURDERS. FIFTEEN OUTRAGES. FAILURE OF POLICE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—(Copyright. Received April 10, 8.55 a.m. ‘ . BERLIN, April 9. The police of Dusseldorf have circulated an official memorandum, which has been sent to all the prisons, reformatories and mental asylums of Germany, asking for help in the search for the “Ripper’ murderers. . The police express the opinion that at least four different persons are concerned in the fifteen outrages. They believe that the first five outrages were committed by an imbecile youth named Johann Straussberg, who confessed, and is now in an asylum, but that the four subsequent murders of servant girls were by a criminal whose fiendish instincts were aroused by Straussberg’s example. The police of Dusseldorf attribute their failure to catch the murderers to the false ideals prevailing with regard to sexual criminals. They declare that such criminals are not brutal, rough and violent, but are precisely the opposite. Frequently these monsters appear to be gentle and kindhearted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 114, 10 April 1930, Page 7
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