MOSCOW MURDER
VICTIM BEHEADED HEAD PUT IN POST. (United Press Assn.— By Telegraph—Copyright) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Moscow, February 21. The housing shortage fn Moscow led to a cold-blooded murder for which two lovers, Mary Busigina and Ivan Levitas, were sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment each, the maximum penalty for a nonpolitical crime. The pair were unable to find a loom. The victim invited them to share his but the woman, desiring privacy, killed him with an axe. She then posted his head to a distant, town and left other parts of the body at the Moscow station Finger prints on the head led to identification.
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Southland Times, Issue 21636, 23 February 1932, Page 5
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105MOSCOW MURDER Southland Times, Issue 21636, 23 February 1932, Page 5
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