MISSING WOMEN AND GIRLS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19836, 27 June 1934, Page 9

MISSING WOMEN AND GIRLS

BAFFLING PROBLEM FOR POLICE

NO CLUE TO MYSTERY OF RAILWAY TRUNK

Uniter) Press Association —B\ Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 26, 11.30 p.m.) 1 LONDON, June 26. Forty thousand women and girls are annually recorded missing in the Police records in Britain. The fact indicates the difficulties facing detectives in the Brighton trunk crime, who are still without a clue as to the identity of the victim. A message from London, dated June 19, stated that a cheap brown fibre trunk, which was left in the Brighton station, was opened by railway officials. It was found to contain a female body, lacking head and limbs. Later a suit case was found in King's Cross station. It contained a woman’s head 'and feet, believed to belong to the same person. The Brighton trunk was deposited on June 6, and the King’s Cross suitcase on June 7. The American police recently requested Scotland Yard to search for a trunk presumably containing the body of Agnes Tufverson, an American lawyer, who was missing after marrying Captain Ivan Poderjaz. Poderjaz was detained at Vienna, where he was accompanied by Suzanne Ferrand, whom he married in London in 1933. He married Agnes Tufverson in New York later in the same year. The Vienna police detained Suzanne Ferrand, who allegedly admitted that a trunk was in her fiat and its contents belonged to Agnes Tufverson. “The Daily Mail” announces that investigations have established that the Brighton discovery is not connected with the Poderjaz case, because the Brighton trunk was deposited on June 6, whereas, since Agnes Tufverson disappeared in November, her body could not remain undetected so long.