MURDER AND SUICIDE
AN EXTRAORDiNAR\ DRAMA CLAIRVOYANTE , ASSISTS POLICE. MUNICH. May 23. (Received May 23, at 11.45 p.m.) A clairvoyante assisted th< police to solve an extraordinary drama of murder and suicide which followed the theft of 50 marks and caused six deaths in as many years. The affair began iu t»2S, when a woman was robbed aud murdered fit Schrobenhausen and her nephew, Josef Boehm, was arrested on suspicion. Soon afterwards her sister, whom it was alleged the murderer terrorised into wiping up the blood, was found drowned Boehm's mother committed suicide, while in 1930 a neighbour, Ludwig Buerkcl. who was cognisant of the crime, disappeared. The police recently rearrested Boehm and his father, but the former committed suicide. Subsequently a clairvoyante conduct.-d the police to a spot where they iin earthed Buerkel's head, while her explanation of circumstances of which she was previously unaware coincided with police information. The police are now searching for Buerkel's body, which the clairvoyante declares is buried near the head. Meanwhile Boehm, sen., committed suicide by hanging in his cell.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22270, 24 May 1934, Page 9
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