THE RIPPER MURDERS
POLICE NONPLUSSED POOR PERSONS INVOLVED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 10, 11 a.in.) BERLIN, April 9. The Dusseldorf police have circulated an official memorandum which has been sent to all prisons, reformatories, and mental asylums in Germany asking for tieip in the searcli for the Rapper murderers. They express the opinion that at feast four different persons are concerned in 15 outrages. The police believe that the first fiver outrages were committed by an imbecile youth, Johann Strauss berg, who confessed and is now in an asylum, but four subsequent murders of servant girls were by the initiative of a. criminal whoso fiendish instincts were aroused by Straussberg s example. The Dusseldorf police attribute their failure to catch the murderers to false ideals prevailing in regard to sexual criminals. They declare that such criminals are not brutal, rough, or violent, but precisely the opposite. Iriequentlv these monsters appear gentle and kind-hearted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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