GRIM RELICS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20064, 22 March 1935, Page 9

GRIM RELICS

SEQUEL TO TRUNK MYSTERY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. “The Daily Herald” says that Sir Bernard Spilsbury (pathologist to the Criminal Investigation Department), is convinced that the legs found at Waterloo station belonged to the torso. It is believed the victim was stabbed to death about a month ago. The “mystery of the legs in the train’’ is the latest murder problem confronting the police. The discovery of a man’s legs, skilfully severed at the knee in a brown paper parcel placed under a seat in a suburban train at Waterloo on February 25 led to police activity all the week, resulting, after examination at hospitals and mortuaries, in the announcement that there are no grounds for suspecting a grim hoax, which was the old alternative to murder. A description of the possible appearance of the victim following a medical examination of the legs suggested that he was between 20 and 30 years of age, about sft Bin in height, and slim, possibly a dancer, as the toes are contracted owing to tight-fitting shoes. A headless male torso, with the legs severed close to the body and a hand missing, was discovered in a canal near Brentford, which is on the line between Hounslow and Waterloo, where the legs were found. The body was wrapped in a flannel shirt and trousers in a loosely tied sack. It was found by boys seeking tadpoles.