DUSSELDORF MANIAC

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20874, 14 November 1929, Page 9

DUSSELDORF MANIAC

BRAZEN LOVE FOR SENSATION. THE CITY PANIC-STRICKEN. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, November 12. (Received Nov. 13,-at 5.5 p.m.) According to a report from Dusseldorf Baron Von Zigcsa, the chief of the Dus seldorf police, d- lares: “ I cannot sleep at night. I awake from a nightmare in which I think I am ‘ Jack the Ripper in the act of committing a horrible murder.” Zjgesa’s state of mind is char actcristic of the panic-stricken city: Beneath an outward calm, Dusseldorf is in a frenzy of hysterical terror. If a child is 10 minutes late the mother telephones to the over-worked police mploring them to send a search party, and. newspaper offices are besieged all day by people who rhink they have clues. ’ 'undreds of sinister rumours are cn-re t that bodies of children and girls have been found. Half-demented men give themselves up to the police, accusing themselves of being ‘ Jack the Ripper,’ but they arc always completely innocent. In the meantime “Jack the Ripper,” with the brazen love for sensation which is the main trait in his mania, proclaims in a second letter to a newspaper that he will surrender to the police when his victims number 30. To-day the police began digging in the field indicated in “ Jack the Ripper’s ” map. They did not find a body, but they located a number of articles which are considered important.