ROMANCE OF MURDER AND SUICIDE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19807, 24 May 1934, Page 9

ROMANCE OF MURDER AND SUICIDE

SIX DEATHS IN SIX YEARS. Unite I Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 23, 10.20 p.m.) MUNICH, May 23. A clairvoyante assisted the police to solve an extraordinary drama of murder and suicide, which followed the theft of fifty marks, and has caused six deaths in as many years. The affair began in 1928, when a woman was robbed and murdered at Schrobenausen, and her nephew, Joseph Hoehm, was arrested on suspicion. Soon afterwards, her sister, whom it was alleged the murderer terrorised into wiping up the blood, was found drowned. Boehm's mother committed suicide, while in 1930, a neighbour, Ludwig Buerkel, who was cognisant of the crime disappeared. The police recently rearrested Boehm and his father, but the former committed suicide. Subsequently a clairvoyante conducted the police to the spot where they unearthed Buerkel’s head, while her explanation of the circumstances of which she was previously unaware, coincided with the police information. The police are now searching for Buerkel’s body, which the clairvoyante declares was buried near the head. Meanwhile Boehm senr. has committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell.