DEGENERATE'S GHASTLY EXPERIMENT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ST.PETERSBURG. March 27. A youth named Rntkewitsch, a magistrate's son, who is an extraordinary degenerate, has been sentenced to eight years’ hard labour for strangling and stabbing a young girl. Thirty-five wounds were found In the body of the girl. Katkewitsch’s diary showed that he sought to analyse his own feelings while mutilating the victim, whom he selected at random. The fact that the prisoner was a minor mitigated the sentence.
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Southland Times, Issue 17003, 29 March 1912, Page 5
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77DEGENERATE'S GHASTLY EXPERIMENT Southland Times, Issue 17003, 29 March 1912, Page 5
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