STUDENT’S AMAZING CRIME
FATHER AND MAIDS KILLED.
OTHER MURDERS SUSPECTED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Stockholm, March 8. A girl returning home was horrified to find murdered her father,. Hjabnar Von Sydow, a noted industrialist. and the head of the employers’ association, and two maid servants, all seemingly battered with a piece of iron piping. ' Amazing disclosures are made regardin'’’ the career of the dead man’s son, a student. In addition to him slaying his father and two servants, he murdered an old farmer, his wife and sister-in-law at Varmdo. I He had borrowed money from the farmer and was therefore suspected of murdering them in July, also another old man from whom he borrowed. Von Sydow is an intellectual but led a wild life and committed suicide dramatically at the end of a champague and oyster dinner. He was presenting roses to his wife and guests when a detective arrived.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 7
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