Show s' s 71 Y tills tills' ti t i 1 bk r r r r t T f r y 1 J- J r fi 1 i j T 4 T i r N F Easy tp Get Away With MURDER L 1 y 1 r p 1 t l 1 tr PJ t I I L c 1 r k kr If 1 i f. f 1 w v w I I Fifty i P er en GiMe o e It Perfect P t Crimes rimes i I AS 1 ow Y y lc Are Ar N l' l ever ven Suspected ec a J t 01 j- j r- r J i I r r 1 I p. p r h r I r s1 Says d N Norbet d r I r. r r p I Lederer i li logi t 1 i I ii tr S fk i i I. I tv r. r ji t i 1 t I an dM O. O t M f O e Th Thin an I jl I I E I 4 t 4 1 J Twenty Per PerC C Gent nt 0 of I the t Murder Murderers in n Y 3 it t Country oun 1 try r Are re Ever veEr J iy IE t Brought fa o Justice j f s 1 r v q Y r v r LY r M f a qt i v r i f i 4 y t Y i 4 A I I 4 r 1 I IE 4 3 c ii z I r C f I r i L. L fi II f J v t r it cc it F By By- Harry Goldberg EVERYday day in A America criminals ls kill kIn h J Without leaving suspicious evidence I Perfect crimes are ate constantly planned and executed with no one suspecting that the death was due to murder a Such Is is' the opinion of Norbert Lederer noted and writer who who has patiently followed the course of crime and criminals in the greatest nations of the world Man Many cases of s1 suicide death from natural causes' causes and accidents are arc cleverlY cleverly clev clev- erly c conceived n crimes crimes says sass says Mr Lederer 1 and the greatest of the worlds world's detec detectives ves ti i b know that deaths arc arc s possible murders a I was discussing this subject once with Henry Henri B. B Br Irving a British h crime expert and Sir B Basil slI Thom Thompson on former Chief of Scotland Yard Yard and they both that agreed t tso so 50 per pel percent cent of the murders committed areA are A never never suspected and that not more than 20 20 per per cent of the murderers In fn any country are ever brought to Justice In cities like New York London Berlin Ber Ber- lin In Yi Vienna nna virtually every citizen numbers num awn numbers bers berst among his a acquaintances quai at least t o one emu t murderer who has s escape escaped detec detection on r and who moves about in hi his circle in inso so so society clety without the slightest suspicion of o 1 any kind has blood on E ft In his study of crime Mr Lederer has r I collected olle tec an ah Immense immens library upon the thel ther r. r l r subject Correspondents In foreign coun coon coon- i tries tries' send him him f the stenographic transcripts tran trap scripts of testimony ony In incases eases cases which have hav reached the courts t He knows at first hand the scientific methods of or the Berlin police He has 4 been intimate of the in France serving also as s a Juror in the celebrated It Scotland Yard x Caillaux trial He knows and has been a Juror in England has hM the the h J r confidence of American merican investigators and andt t 0 has served on on- several on-several several New Y York rk juri Juries I E m mv most successful murder Is Ls one v tl Z J J- that has no appearance of crime J 6 Lederer Even th the most compe tl tent of detective forces pe permit killings to t 4 1511 slip p past t them classified as accidents I f. f z a v. v or suicides r. r Even the the most Inept and clumsy of i r murderers has about eighty chances out t of a hundred d to tc escape The rhe type of mur murder which has has hu recently figured prom iJ t J y In in tl the news 1 the t torch slayings slayings' such as carried out b Jay by Henry Colin Colln Z Campbell and Earl Francis are 4 m most st fas as t the e human body is t. t difficult t to destroy y i pI If If a a. few strands of hair hal and a bit of J flesh flesh survive itis likely to tc make ld identification 0 Y 1 tion p possible tho teeth are almost certain certain tain to o enable the careful Ini in investigator In i. i or to identify the vl victim tm Murderers as a. a O class class' class are a are stupid men t- t rand end show a lack of imagination on TheY The Y single lingle occurrence n of any particularly sensational sen sen- iJ 4 1 type of murder is al almost t certain 1 to be imitated ted shortly shorty afterward a b by other 1 r jf similar ones c 6 With i h the repetition on of t the e torch murders murders' murl mur mur- l 4 dens ders' we Wei will wUl probably be subjected to a 8 f. f series sines of of t killings of the same Same- kind The k Leo Leopold Leopold O d- d loeb b case e in Chicago was fol- fol fol followed followed c r- r ty 1 10 lowed e by y a a. parallel case case e in ni Richmond r. r ter I. I J Vs Va and n one in S Stockholm In which thes the ther s r r y facts facts' Ic were e. e almost ost precisely The tl s. s appe ely read fud crimes in series r Is an the crime s situation n k I. I t o Tn In the United St States and Great reat Brit Brit- r i o I alp the law pr co delicti requires es that x the e co corpse corpse b be found and identified or ti t r s some me witness witness' of the thel slaying and disposal of Cf the e bo body y must t be p produced In in order rd r J yta to have hav have evidence evidence- e w which cli will make ke it Jt possible pos os JY jl sible aible to to put a s suspect pe on trial r i France ce and Germany German do not require t. t s 's V- V the carp corpus u rP us delicti eU tl and the th the absence absence of the tho body odY does not save Q the thet guilty o one e if iI other evidence Is 15 satisfactory ct ry l' l How Hoar stupid the attempt to attempt to 10 consume v fa J 1 r- r x 1 3 r Dorothy torch forch slaying slaying- victim victim vic vic- ic tim w whose ose b body dy was was' ide identified by liy byn liyan byan an n unburned unburned piece or her her dress dress the body body- was as in these torch murders murders' is shown hown by the fact tact that more Ingenious and studied methods of destroying the evidence of murd murder r have failed to ke keep p the from Justice The Th most famous case of corpus de dc delicti delicti de- de lIcU lit in the United States vas vias' was that that which ended with the the theba ba hanging of Dr Crippen for the Ute killing of his wife There awas t a was no witness to the murder The body of the tho woman was completely ly obliterated te except for a n small piece of skit skin of th the abd abdomen men This piece of flesh was identified bythe by bythe bythe the portion ri of a scar resulting from an appendicitis appendicitis' operation and nd this tiny liny iny item of evidence was sufficient to convict Dr Crippen Despite his his conviction many Jurists juru Inthe in inthe inthe the United States States' and E England sl nd contended that according to to the law lav law of c corpus delicti de de- lieU Crippen should not have suffered c conviction as the sliver silver of flesh was not definite enough legally to tc identify Mrs Crippen To show that Justice could be cheated from the rule of corpus delicti Melville Davisson P Post ston once e wrote a story about a a. a man who stabbed a woman in the back dissolved her body in hi hian inan an acid 1 bath and nd sent the sent the solution l down the c drain As he walked out of the house with the bloody clothing lothing with a knife knUe rent in the back he was caught but the absence absen e of the the b body d ga gave him his J s- s freedom I sat on oh ona a a- Federal Grand Jury In New York considering the disappearance nce of the captain of a vess vessel l. l All we had as evidence e was on s a a ran rail The i the case con concluded that the roan man n 1 had leaned over over ver the rail gashed his throat and tumbled Int into the sea The nature of the bloodstains indicated indicated Indicated in in- that this Ingenious explanation was probably correct No one was a witness to the crime The body was gone cone lf If U for instance nce the doctor had committed the crime clime he be c could Id not have been c convicted In reviewing some of or the tho wholesale murdering which is Included in the most spectacular cases In the history of crime Mr Lederer cited cUed the the case of Landru th the Bluebeard ne who French as one would hive have been able to escape the net of f the law Jaw lin in the he United st States tes or Great Britain NEARLY EARLY thirty women believed to to- have visited Landrus Landru's country home dis appeared They were swallowed up In n his his- villa No on one i had had seen a a. a murder happen Landru had hid specially constructed stoves tO CS in which piece by piece ho he had disposed of the tho bodies of the middle-aged middle and elderly elderly elderly eld eld- erly l ladles dies who who had so SQ fr trustingly entered entered d his home Nothing was left but a few bones Being a thorough fiend Landru carried put the clothing lothing le left t behind and the profits from the sale sal of this this app apparel rel were noted In ln his boo books FC For years he slaughtered slaughtered one ne w woman man after another r before his grim and gruesome me career was was brought brought to an end Another striking str J g case cas s in the disappearance disappearance disappear disappear- ance anc o of the corpus delicti cited by Mr Lederer concerned Bc Bela Kiss of Hungary Hungary Hun Hun- gary whose victims were w were re seven neven servant ervant s girls girl rJ each bringing a a dowry with her The hapless girls girls were killed and their bo bodies ci hidden in steel p petrol tro drums rt 1 y j l. t 4 r It rr I iy f f I ij i I 1 J D Do 0 Y You ou K nova ioWa a a J Murderer r r I II T I N CITIES IT li y York ark o a n Berlin and c r V Vienna as Mr Lederer nearly carly neary citizen r a r r Nr numbers among his nis ae acquaintances i n sl at t l least a one on one Y J murderer wh who has Kas escaped pC detection and d moyce moves B. B bo sue u pi 1 r V Statistics s indicate indi atc that a arrests arrests for Jor JT murder are m made d j in in only oily about f 6 per 6 Per r cent of the known c cases ses and that convictions convictions' c are obtained in about in-about about ut on one quarter one quarter quart r p of t these cases c ses Y r rone The Themo t successful l murder etl thai tl 1 mo most murder is is o one e at athas has no no noa a appearance p aran e of crime crime y Yet ct murderers murderers a as aj a class lass ar are etu stupid id d and nd show how a lack of imagination The They imitate Je ea each h other as as' evidenced in in recent wave of torch h S rJ u b y 1 11 y I killings 1 a 3 Mixture of politics in in administration ion of police forces or e and the lack o of f fink a a system ate for training train train- ing ink detect detectives ve is ia isi lar largely rg elY Jy responsible e Jg o Dorot Dorothy y King pretty Broad Broadway ay model was 1 t. t the victim of one of the many famous un murders A America derance 01 of unsolved vea 1 m in i solved murders Y a mr r f Wl t c F 0 t J oI I 7 M I The World Wartook War I took him to the front When a dearth of gasoline drums oc- oc oc occurred occurred some one remembered the steel containers owned by Kiss KIM The police pollee transported these coffins coffins' and and- made the inevitable discovery when l they hey were prepared prepared pre pre pre- pared for use Kiss Kiu evidently anticipated discovery bythe by the police p for he was never caught Hei He Hc e exchanged changed papers with th a 1 dying soldier and made his his' escape Mr Lederer be be be- he is now at liberty in the United States Slates DRITZ ITZ a a but butcher h of Hanover Han Han- JF over over Germany ny carved up up she the ih b bodies dies of forty or more more I p persons and sold them themas tb m as butchers butcher's meat before suspicion was was arous aroused d against g him hlin He had failed to dispose of oC all alI lJ the h clothing l wh which ch It remained re- re r re remained from froni his victims but there w was s nothing in ln the place to assure uie recognition recognition tion of the dead If the rule of corpus delicti had been in force In Ge Germany he might have hav escaped the law i These These These murders mass declares Mr Lederer are re done by men who arc nrc not normal They are pathological and the desire to Jo kill springs from perversion and abnormality But Bu in all my study I 1 1 known a criminal type There is no criminal type I once lived Jived in to a house with a man who later killed his wife and and- law in and a B. more gentle Intelligent Intel Intel- Intel Intelligent cultured m man n could not hot be lm 1 Another sensational case was that o of H Hugo go Schank a H Hungarian ngar an Bluebeard He Ho used ed matrimonial advert advertisements as asa as asa a method of persuading ding servant girls to tc taJI i t his trap He Re chose victims who had no family that might seek them tiem if they dropped out of of sight Then taking the girls on l long ng walks walk in in tho the woods he murdered them them in spots that were un un- likely Jy to be visited by other people He lived on the income income- of these thes horrors horrors horrors hor hor- for lor years before being brought to too th the attention of tho the police pollee The bodies bodies' were expo exposed ed to wind and weather so SQ long that it was hardly possible to certify identification 1 1 ij S I rr rf v fc I- I X XA A i J 4 e sl h y w r r yd 1 d W The Thc The Fr French Bluebeard Blu b ard whose killings numbered numbered more more than IthaI a score would woul probably have been able abl to es p in in America or r Gr Great t B Britain it in where the law of corpus delicti is in force I One of the most famous famous' American cases case of the disappearance of the corpus d delicti was that of Dr Webster of or Boss Bas Bosston Boston ton who was a professor of anatomy and chemistry at a medical medica college allege He was Indebted to Dr Parkman a professor of Harvard for fora a large sum of money and d decided t that at the be way lay to cancel the debt wa was 25 s to remove to the cr creditor Upon his his' Dr r Parkman c cameto came cameto me to tc the laboratory tory Dr Webster killed him and burned his b body dy In the furnace As Asan Asan Asin an in expert In anatomy managed he tode de str stony stroy y every bit bl of or t the e corpse corps except an artificial tooth That rh t tooth convicted Dr Webster George J Joseph Smith tradesman tradesman trades trades- man of good good- repute drowned his three throe brides brides' In the bathtub bathtub Smith had no trouble In coll collecting the insurance money and grabbing I trio the dowries of rol the the first two but the brother broth r of the second w was s his his' nemesis He e did not like Smith He had op opposed opposed op- op 1 posed the marriage and nd though he ho had no te reason on to to suspect his brother brother in law in-law l i. i f J 1 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I t 1 he happened to read of ofa a bride bade dying in her bath some time after his sister had died The mans man's name was not not Smith and he lived in another town town but this brother of t the second bride wrote Scotland Scotland Scot Scot- land Jand Yard to Inquire Into Q t this third case ase When they did Smiths Smith changco name and the trio of bridal d deaths cv eventually brought him the ultimate punishment In each case the doctor r had certified that death was or or from n natural t ral causes causes and his ease ase case was was taken to the House of Lords Although there was no no witness witness' to tho the murders the Lords de decided decided decided de- de that a murder system had been proved ci and he could not t esc escape pc the pen pen- alty How Smith managed the drown- drown ings is still obscure William Becker Chancellor of the German Embassy at Santiago Chile ChUe planned d an ingenious us coup He slew u the Chilean porter at the embassy dressed him in his own clothes left his own oam personal personal personal per per- belongings and then s set t fire firo t to the embassy Becker Decker had re received elve threatening let- let 01 j jr r I t 1 ro i t murders committed a There are many which have hare appeared to be eith either i suicides or accidents says sas Mr 1 Led Led- |