The sight of apparently limbless human torsos floating down the Manawatu River caused considerable excitement to a number of people who noticed them from the river bank. At first there was some speculation as to whether this might not be a case of a crime similar to but more terrible than that of the recent British "Trunk Murders Nos. 1 and 2." However, further investigation revealed the fact that the torsos were the battered remnants of tailors' dummies and display models which had done duty in the capping day procession of Massey College^
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 4
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