EXTRAORDINARY GRIME.
YOUTH MUTILATES BODY OF A YOUNG GIRL.
TO ANALYSE HIS FEELINGS
(By Electric Telcgraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.)
(Received 28, 9.20 a.m.) St. Petersburg, March 27
A youth named Ratkewitsch, a magistrate’s son, and 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 bedy cf the girl. Ratkewitscn, in a diary, showed that ho sought to analyse his own feelings while mutilating his victim, whom Jio°selected at random.
The fact that prisoner was. a minor mitigated the sentence.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 78, 28 March 1912, Page 5
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96EXTRAORDINARY GRIME. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 78, 28 March 1912, Page 5
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