A GRIM STORY
GERMAN ‘JACK THE RIPPER' DECOYS WOMEN AND THEN MURDERS THEM. “SERVICE TO SOCIETY.’* By Toleoraph.—Press A ssriS —CcgjyrifiTil’. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. (Received July 2, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, June 30. Sensational disclosures t were made at the irial 'J an elderly butcher named Karl Grosemann, who is described as the German “Jack the Ripper. He is charged with the murder ol three women, whom he enticed to his flat on the pretence of > employment as domestics, hut the disappearance of more than twenty -women is attributed to him.
He is further accused of enticing an additional fifty women and children to his flat, but they, fortunately, escaped. It is alleged that Grossmann met his victims at a railway station and a£tes*wards cut the bodies into pieces and threw them into the nver ISpree or canals. He passed the time in his cell writing an autobiography, in which ho declares that surplus women had become a social and economic pest and by destroying some he rendered a service) to society.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 7
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173A GRIM STORY New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 7
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