MURDER "TO ORDER"
PROFESSIONAL GANG POISONERS HIRED OUT - V IT" WARSAW, March 37. The love of two men for the same girl and their hatred of each other has led to the arrest, of a professional gang who murdered "to order." The leaders of the gang, whoso headquarters were at Aleksnndrov, near Kiewlce, Central Poland, have already confessed that during the last few years they have murdered IS people for from £2O to £SO each: Twelve of the gang have already been rounded up. Members of the gang, the police have discovered, were hired out to husbands who*wished to kill their wives, wives who wished to get rid of their husbands, business men who wanted to remove rivals. The murders were, carefully carried out by means of poinning. Death always* appeared to be natural; there were no inquests.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 12
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