MUTILATED BODY IN BAG
DISCOVERY IN N.S.W. CREEK 1 - * --A MURDERED MAN BUTCHERED £ .. .. . • - • • ■- ' : ■?. HIDEOUS GRIME By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.,Sydney, Nov. 11. ’ Evidence of a hideous crime has been > revealed by the discovery in a chaffbag of a man’s body, headless and with " the legs missing, in a creek near rabri (New South Wales). . The bagj£; and contents were evidently washed 7 into the creek bank during the recent : floods. Detectives are working on the body. They declare it is a clear case of murder committed some weeks ago. The head has been removed at the; " first joint of the neck and the legs ’ have been cut off at the hips. The only clothing on the trunk is a grey cardigan jacket. The bag was weightedjdown ;; by six bricks. It. is believed the victim was a working man aged about 40. He had appa? “ ently been killed, dismembered: and.-', hurled into the creek. • '-4
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 9
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152MUTILATED BODY IN BAG Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 9
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