MYSTERY SYMBOL REAPPEARS
CRUDELY DRAWN ON FOREHEADS OF DEAD POLICE FEAR WORK OF MANIAC United Press Association—By Electric TeleerHoh Copyright (Received October 4, 7.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 3. Louis Weiss and Frances Hajek, each aged 19 years, were found shot dead in a car on a suburban highway. The girl had also been stabbed seven times, apparently with an Icepick. A mysterious circular symbol had been crudely drawn with the girl’s own lipstick on each forehead, with the letters Al. The police, after faillngto find signs of robbery or other motive, recalled apprehensively the socalled Lovesland murders in 1930, in which a maniac shot dead three men, on each occasion having previously announced his intention in letters signed with the same symbol. It Is feared that this maniac is responsible for the present murders. The couple had been missing for twelve hours before the bodies were found, but the narents did not notify the police, as they believed the couple had eloped.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20850, 5 October 1937, Page 7
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163MYSTERY SYMBOL REAPPEARS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20850, 5 October 1937, Page 7
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