GERMANY AGHAST

Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 9

GERMANY AGHAST

•RIPPER” ATROCITIES AUDACIOUS COMMUNICATION. WOMAN THEORY ABANDONED.

(United Press Association.—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 8,36 a.ra.) BERLIN, Nov. 14. A conference of police chiefs at Duaseldorf rejected the theory that the

“Ripper” was a woman. Medical experts confirmed the briginal belief that the peculiar atrociousness of the murders pointed to a man.

All Germany is aroused. The Prussian Ministry of the Interior has offered a reward of £BOO for the perpetrator,alive or dead.

With characteristic effrontery, tho “Ripper' again sent a letter to a Dus* seldorf newspaper stating: “Farewell, Dusseldorf, You will never get me, bat tro on digging.” . ,

The letter was apparently posted on the Belgo-German frontier. t

A hat arid a. handbag found by diggers today have been identified •as belonging to a servant girl who lias been missing since August 11. Another discovery today was a piece of paper .pinned to a tree near the . dig* ging bearing a great letter .‘£P,” through which runs a cross nnd an ar‘row. The paper is identical with that used in the “Ripper’s” letters. \

CLIMAX REACHED. , ANOTHER BODY DISCOVERED EXPERTS BAFFLED.

(Received 1.50 p.m.) DUSSELDORF, November 15. The horror of . the. murder scare, reached its climax, with the djssoy^ v ' of the body of since August 11. **'

The-very -area-was indicated-ijh’tbe-^-T. mystery plan which the murderer sept • to a newspaper office. Diggers in the.afternoon found the body of the Vser- ? vant girl for which theyhgd:beeh.' searching for three months within a few feet of the place where the mutilated body of a child was found on Saturday. ’ ' - ■ -

Thirty criminal exports are now seeking to fathom the mystery-, ' but-. arc no nearer a clue than at the. ginning of the horrors.' - -