MUMMIFIED HEAD IN BOX.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14853, 2 December 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

MUMMIFIED HEAD IN BOX.

. —— *■. —-— , ' ■ . '■-:;. 't *>••• . DISCOVERED IN BANK BASEMENT^ A grim discovery has been made in tb« basement of a Nice bank by the official receiver, M. Augeard. While inspecting the furniture of the Crossa Ban'.:. v ' l " . Masscna. which went into liquidations few months ago owing to the death of t' ie head of the firm, the official came p aero* a small wooden chest. In it he found * ' human " head in a, mummified-coridilion-;; The skull was : black and hairless, but tM features were comparatively well P^f^fef M. ' Augeard immediately informedl tw» police, and the commissary summoned Be- ; fore him all the former employees of m bank who happened '.'to' be in the WW- , Meanwhile, those who had romutc; * • amincd the head declared it tto'be th»t«y a woman, probably an Indian, f"" 10 .,,* soon spread of a terrible sequel to '«* death of the bank proprietor, M..O»jMi who died six months ago. ~„ The newspapers nublished details ofM " awful crime" and the police ians;icKC"t the bank premises: /Even i the*s&&££&§ the liquidated firm were brought out - »» a view to a scrutiny of tho accounts., , Later in the dav it was learned thai afl ex-employee of the bank had v stated «" the head was a relic which an tfjgj friend of M. Crossa had brought ira-J India. The police commissary sent im head to the morgue. '■■ ■■ • • • ■ ■■ •