DUSSELDORF OUTRAGES
THE .RIPPER MURDERS. APPEAL by the police. SEARCH FOR PERPETRATORS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright. (Received April 10, 8.55 a.m.) BERLIN, April 9. The Dusseldorf police have circulated an official memorandum which has been sent to-all prisons, reformatories and mental asylums in Germany asking for help in the search for the Ripper murderers. They express the opinion that at least four different persons Were concerned in the 15 ; outrages. The police believe tihe first five outrages were committed by an imbecile youth, named Johann Strauss■berg, who has confessed and is now in an asylum, tout that four, subsequent murders of servant girls were committed by an imitative criminal whose fiendish instincts were aroused by Straussberg’s example. The Dusseldorf police attribute their failure to catch the murderers to false ideals prevailing in regard to sexual criminals. They declare that such criminals are not brutal, rough and violent, but precisely the opposite. Frequently these monsters appear to be gentle and kind-hearted*
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17992, 10 April 1930, Page 7
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