BODY IN TRUNK
LEFT AT RAILWAY STATION HEAD AND FEET IN SUITCASE . (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) , LONDON, June 19. (Received June 19, at 11 p.m.) A cheap brown fibre trunk which was left at Brighton station was opened by railway officials. It contained a female body, without the head and limbs. Later a suitcase was found at Kings Cross station. It contained a woman’s head and feet which are believed to belong to the same person. The Brighton trunk was deposited on June 6 and the Kings Cross suitcase on June 7.
The American police recently requested Scotland Yard to search for a trunk presumably containing, the body of Agnes Tufverson, an American lawyer, who. has been missing since she married Captain Ivan Poderjaz. The latter was detained at Vienna, where he was accompanied by Suzanne Ferrand, whom he married in London in 1933. He married Tufverson in New York later in the.same year. The Vienna police have detained Suzanne Ferrand. who allegedly admitted that a trunk in her flat and its contents belonged to Tufverson, The Daily Mail announces that investigation established that the Brighton discovery was not connected with the Poderjaz case because, the Brighton trunk was deposited bn June 6, whereas since Tufverson disappeared in November her body could not have remained undetected for so long.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22293, 20 June 1934, Page 7
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