Sisters Dreadful Deed to be Rid of Reprobate Brother’s Persecution
Per Press Association. Received Wednesday, 10.20 p.m. . COLOGNE, Feb. 12. The murder of Johann Kirchnor, whoso dismembered body was found in a sack floating in the Rhine, has been traced to his 23-year-old sister and his widowed mother. Both have confessed. Johann was a reprobate who was sent to a reformatory. When lie was discharged ho preyed on his relations threatening them with bodily harm. His sister wearied of the persecution and killed him with an axe while he was sleeping ou January 30th. She buried tho head in tho kitchen stove, hacked tho body to pieces and assisted by her mother wheeled them in a perambulator to the riverside and threw them in. A bloodstained coat which covered tho perambulator led to the discovery of the crime and tho confession.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7142, 13 February 1930, Page 7
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141Sisters Dreadful Deed to be Rid of Reprobate Brother’s Persecution Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7142, 13 February 1930, Page 7
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