The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-28
MAD BUTCHER
 LIKE EUROPE'S < MASS KILLERS
Cleveland's Knife Wielder Stays i'm Manner of Jack
 the Ripper

Cleveland, Sept. 2e. (uP)--Thls million city's 'sAEad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," torso killer of lS persons in four years, already is be- ing compared with the notorious mass murderers of history.
 Crime students, fascinated by the bizarre decapitatlon saga, are comparing the similarities in point with the depredations of England's "Jack the Ripper" or of Henri De- sire Landru, Frances infamous ''bluebeard."
 Others compare the beheader with the notorious Fritz Hartman, the German dealer in Illicit meat during the acute meat shortage in Hanover.
 Physicians have established def- initeiy that Cleveland's killer pos- Sesses more than q rudimentary knowledge of anatomy. Each body has been beheaded, dissected and the human sections secreted in suualid, out-of-the-way places, generally near or in water-Lake Erie or the Cuyahoga river, Q tfih- utary---and in areas geographically near but socially far from down. town Cleveland.
 Landru Murdered Ten
 Landru, the French slaughterer, made love to 203 women, became engaged to i3, and, murdered 10.
 He was the son of merchant In Paris. Before the World War, he had been 0 studious, religiously-inclined boy. Some emotional change came, however, and he was convicted Of petty frauds and served two short terms in prison.
 Landru later advertised in mat rlmonial journals. offering to buy furniture. Tn this way, he met hundreds of women. Police esti- mated they numbered 283.
 He lured the victims to Vernouil- lett, where he slew them. The bod les were dismembered with thin saw blades and were burned in Q cooking stove.
 While Cleveland's mad but- cher" has murdered both men and women, Landru preyed only on women.
 Police had their first thread to Landru's identity when they found his notebook listing "one-way" tickets to Vernouillett. He had been arrested on on old theft charge.
 Clews In Book and Stove
 The book gave the names Of the women who had disappeared inys- toriously, and the cook-stove sup- piled the ciew to bits of bones In the ash pile nearby.
 Then there was Jack the Rip- per" This soubriquet became a byword throughout the world more than two generations ago. In 1888, JAck the Ripper committed the first scalpel-slashlng murder In the Whitechapel section of Lon. don.
 During that year, there was In Aii a score of victims. The mutila- ton of each showed that the slayer was ambldextrous.
 But the crimes ceased and Jack the Ripper never was identified positively. A poison.killer of three women, George Chapman, whose name oroginally had been severine KnoSkovski. erstwhile a surgeon, was convicted and hanged how. ever. Chapman was found to have been equally dexterous with both hands and he had been in White- chapel at the time of the murders.
 Probably Active In U. s.
 When a series of similar crimes broke out in America. after the Killings ceased suddenly in Lon- don, Chapman was known to have emigrated to the United States. And SO, when Chapman was hanged, Scotland Yard men were convinced that he was Jack the Ripper.
 Fritz Hartman, the German deal- er in illicit meat, when caught final. iy. bragged complecently in court of 90 or 70 killings. Twenty.seven were actually proved.
 Hungry, fatherless boys were en. ticed to Harrman's shop. They never reappeared. Other boys. playing along the Leine river, found the skulls and bones of their piaymates.
 Unlike these European killers, Cleveland's mad butcher" preys up- on seemingly unknown and almost anonymous individuals. Relatives do not appear to complain that their loved ones have disappeared.
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