GHOULISH CREATURE
ORGANISED ATROCITIES,
CLAIRVOYANT GUISE:.
TWENTY PERSONS SLAIN,
(Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. The "Daily Express' " Moscow correspondent says that Anastasia Permiakova, a gipsy clairvoyant, *Kth her husband and six male and female accomplices, has been sentenced to, death for the horrible murders of 20 women and girls. Permiakova escaped from prison during the revolution while serving a murder sentence. She then organised a murder gang, pillaged villages and held up trains. "Afterwards she settled down as a clairvoyant at Perm. She had a huge clientele of women, many of whom mysteriously disappeared. Th« crimes were undetected till Permiakova called at a solicitor's house and told his beautiful daughter her future. She ordered the girl to bare her neck to see if she had a lucky mark and then murdered her with a hatchet. The police found in; the woman's flat ten bloodstained hatchets. Thirteen other accomplices received long sentences. —Reuter;
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Northern Advocate, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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