CORPSE FOUND IN A CHIMNEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 105, 24 June 1911, Page 7

CORPSE FOUND IN A CHIMNEY.

An extraordinary crime lias boon brought to light in an accidoiil.il manpci- at Zabrn/.e. in Silesia. Swoops \oro engaged in cleaning the laigc,dTfa shinned chimneys hi the house ,{■ ;l landowner named Czekalla, v.ncn i.i the chimney of one of the bedrooms they met with an obstruction. Aftci considerable difiicnlty tiie men suc•ooded m extricating a black object, ... inch proved to be the remains of a ■niman log, blackened by smoke. K.e■lisiiig that they had stumbled upon traces' of a crime, the sweeps summoned the police, and a thorough examination of the chimney was then ■anied nut under police supervision. The results of the examination can only lie described as ghastly, and revolting. Piece hy piece the roinaiijs of what was evidently the body of a voting girl were brought out, blackened ’and hardened by the effects ol the smoko. The doctors who subsequently examined the remains declare that the corpse, which is .believed to ho that - of a girl aged 1.8, who disappeared about, a year ago from the neighbourhood, must have been, in the chimney for many months. The police arc now following every possible clue in the hope of arresting the perpetrators of the ghastly murder, for that the girl was murdered before her body was placed in (.he chimney the export examination leaves little doubt.