MANIA FOR MURDER.
WOMAN CLAIRVOYANT SENT TO GALLOWS.
By uable —Press Association —Copyright.
(Received 11 p.m., June 26.) LONDON, June 25. The “Daily Express” Moscow correspondent says that Anastasia Permiakova, a gipsy clairvoyant, with her husband, and six male and female accomplices have been sentenced to death for the horrible murders oi twenty women and girls. Permiakova escaped tom prison during the revolution; while serving .a murder sentence. She then organised a murder gang, pillaged villages, held up trains and afterwards settled down in the clairvoyance business, _at Penn. She had a huge clientele of women, many of whom mysteriously disappeared. The crimes were undetected until Permiakova called at a solicitor’s house, and told a beautiful daughter’s future. She ordered the girl to bare her neck, to see if she had a lucky mark. Then she murdered her with a hatchet. , n , The police found in the woman’s flat, ten bloodstained hatchets. . ■ Thirteen other accomplices received long sentences.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 27 June 1924, Page 6
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158MANIA FOR MURDER. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 27 June 1924, Page 6
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