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HOUSEHOLD OF SEVEN SANGUINARY ATROCITY. ,PERPETRATED BY BUTCHER. (Received .9 a.m) BERLIN, June 17. A whole household of seven persons was wiped out at Dortmund. A drunken unemployed butcher, named Blaschewski, first attacked and killed with an axe Ms sleeping wife and three children. Then he went to another room and killed a male lodger. Dropping the axe, he fatally attacked the lodger’s wife with a razor, and finally committed suicide. There were many onlookers, hut they were afraid to intervene.—Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 19 June 1926, Page 5
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