The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-19
come a hangman's moose for Karl
Grossmann were he a normal man.
Stage Sat For Trial,

come a hangman's moose for Karl
Grossmann were he a normal man.
Stage Set For Trial.
The stage is almost set for the
trial of this shabby, shivering Old
man, who unquestionably will go
down in criminal history as the most
cold -blooded fiend ever known.
But 1t Is already certain that he
will never be hanged or even go to
the penitentiary, for he has already
proved to be history's worst degen'
crate, a psychopathic patient fore
doomed in his cradle to turn beast
in human form, the most pitiable, IL
obhorrent, living example Of the
curse of heredity.
This confessed killer of q score Of
girls and women, butcher OF their
Eodies, and seller Of the flesh Of some
of them in the guise of veal steak"
or sausage" will spend the rest Of
his nfe-after a trial that is des-
tined to fill the whole world with
shuddering awe-in q hospital for the
criminally insane.
Already famous savants. medical
faculties of great universities. and
anatomic laboratories are bidding for
his skull. A race Is on to buy his
DOuJp ONCh "ILltO hO 10 yet dhNC1 bO
that when he dies he may serve the
one solitary useful purpose OF his
existence-bissection for the further
ance of criminology.
Details OF Crimes.
The International News Service Is
able today to give exclusively some
of the printable details of the blood
curdling career OF Butcher Gross
mann.
His criminal career dates back to
than sixty. AS a young man he
served fourteen years In the peni-
tertiary for an attack on q seven
year-old girl. After he came out Of
prison he was watched for a while,
but then the police lost track Of
him. The last they knew he was
keeping a small butcher shop.
1t Is not known exactly how many
girls and women fell victims to his
fiendishness, but evidence on hand
confirms his confession Of at least
twenty murders. They extend prob
ably over the last twenty years.
Had Brazen Nerve.
The almost superhuman cunning
which goes with his kind Of degener-
acy, as we'll as unmitigated nerve, Of
the DTdZel, Dully bOTt, Indue IL pOs-
sible for him to ply his bestial trade
in the thick of one Of Berlin's
busiest. most populated. and yet
darkest districts-the area around
the Silcsian railroad station.
Since his arrest, many persons have
told the police Of having seen, almost
daily, this thin. shabbily dressed SEN
lie sliding along the narrow little
streets and alleys in that district.
Nearly all OF them recall that each
time they saw him he carried a
package, usually Of brown wrapping
paper. He held II tightly with both
hands. almost hugging 1t to his
stomach. Children--barefoot tene-
ment tots-have come forward with
stories of this DOGGY man" some
times looming out of some dark hall.
way and watching them with un-
canny stare as they played ring
around a rosie" in the gutter.
Carried His Victims.
Little did those who caught such
glimpses Of Karl Grossmann know
that in the packages he Rugged"
were human flesh and bones, still
warm, and that his errand usually
was one Of two things-to peddle the
contents to some shady itinerant
butcher or half-starved inhabitant OF
darkest Berlin, or. II unable thus
to dispose Of them, to toss them
into river or canal.
canal near Andreas Square and those