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I GHASTLY DISCOVERY.

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I GHASTLY DISCOVERY. The German police are occupied in a search for a well-dressed man, who a few days ago left a trunk in the cloak-room at the railway station of Baku, in Russia. As the trunk began to emit an offensive smell, says the Express," it was opened by the police, and the dismembered body of a young woman, covered with a few rags, was found inside. A rope was drawn tightly round the neck, and a handkerchief was stuffed in the mouth. Medical investigation revealed the probability that the murderer first gagged his victim to pre- vent her making a noise, and then strangled her with the rope. Afterwards he cut the body in pieces for the purpose of packing it in the trunk. Another trunk left by the same man con- tained letters, photographs, and other articles, providing useful clues to the identity of the perpe- trator. From these it appears that the victim was the young wife of the murderer, to whom she had been married a very short time. Further clues lead to the supposition that the murderer fled across the frontier to Germany, on his way to London for Liverpool and New York;

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