RIPPER MURDERS
OUTRAGES IN GERMANY UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR PERPETRATORS (United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10th April, 8.55 a.m.) BERLIN, 9th April. The Dusseldorf police have circulated an official memo which has been, sent to all prisons, reformatories, ,aila mental asylums in Germany, asking for help in the search for the “Ripper” murderers. They express the opinion that there are at least four different persons concerned in the fifteen outrages. The police believe that the first five outrages were committed by an imbecile youth, Johann Straussberg, who confessed. Ho is now in an asylum, but four subsequent murders of servant girls were by an imitative criminal, whose fiendish instincts were aroused by Straussberg’s example. , Dusseldorf police attribute their failure to trace the murderers to false ideals prevailing with regard to sexual criminals. They declare that such criminals are not brutal, rough and violent, but precisely the opposite. Frequently these monsters appear to bo gentle and kind-hearted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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