A FRENCH CANNIBAL
BIT OFF MAN’S EAR POLICE INSTITUTE SEARCH (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, November 20. Police in Paris are looking for “The Cannibal of Montparnasse," says the Sunday Referee. Some days ago. in a bar on the Boulevard Montparnasse, ttie man began a conversation with a French en--1 gineer called M. Arnold Biebuyck, aged 60. 1 Suddenly he leaned towards M. I Biebuyck as if to whisper confidentiI ally and, with a vigorous bite, sev- | ered the ear from liis head. As he j fainted, says Reuter, a woman who i had been standing at the bar snatched , M. Biebuyck's pocket book and dashed out of the cafe, followed by the “cannibal.” ' A girl told ttic police; “I have seen the man before. He is known as the Cannibal- A few iimnllis ago lie bit a girl's nose.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20691, 29 December 1938, Page 9
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