DUSSELDORF CRIMES.
THEORY OF THE POLICE.
SEARCH FOR MURDERERS. BERLIN. April 9. The police at Dnsseldorf have circulated an official memorandum among all prisons, reformatories and mental asylums in Germany asking the help of their staffs in the search for the perpetrators of the " Jack the Ripper " murders. They express the. opinion that at least four different persons were, concerned in the 15 outrages.
It is (lie belief of the police thai (he first live crimes were committed by an imbecile vonth, Johann Straussberg, who confessed and now is in a mental hospital, but thai four of tho subsequent murders of girls wore the acts of an imita•#vo criminal whose fiendish instincts were aroused by Straussberg's example. The failure of the police to calch (lie murderers they altributo to false ideals prevailing in regard to sexual criminals. They declare that criminals of that type are not brutal, rough or violent, but precisely (he opposite. Frequently, they assert, these monsters appear to be geutle and kind-hearted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 11
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