DISMEMBERED BODIES.

Wairarapa Age, 2 October 1935, Page 5

DISMEMBERED BODIES.

PORTIONS FOUND IN THIRTY PARCELS. DISCOVERY IN DEEP RAVINE. INDICATIONS OF DOTW/El • i MURDER. (Received Tuesday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. The discovery on Sunday night of portions of bodies, including the heads of a man and a woman wrapped in newspapers in a deep ravine in Gardenholm, Dumfrieshire, was followed yesterday by the finding of other gruesome parcels, apparently scattered in a ravine from a motor ear. Though it is believed to be a case of double murder the police are awaiting a medical report. MADMAN’S WORK. OPINION OF DOCTORS. LONDON, September 30. The search which ended at dusk resulted in the discovery of thirty newspaper parcels containing portions of bodies. A doctor’s report on the parts recovered indicate that they are the remains of a man between 55 -and 60 years of age and of a woman of about 30. They are so mutilated that identification is almost impossible. The man’s fingers had been cut off at the knuckles and the 'ears of both victims had been severed. The skin of the woman’s torso and of the man’s face had been removed with a sharp instrument resembling a scalpel. The man’s remains were more decomposed than those of the woman. The absence of dues recalls the Brighton trunk crime Number One. Even the manner of death is undiscoverable. Doctors express the opinion that the mutilations were the work of a madman.