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Celebration Season
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.
by Giles
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SECRETS OF
Music INTERNATIONAL
Drowned With Music
F
RAULEIN
ILSE
Gfluent in
French despite her
Munich upbringing
trade in the bars Champs Elysees. There, as
By A. J. FORREST
a seller of morphine, she Where women belong to her strength.
dined by gangs,
Д
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CRIME
chine. She, too, put her lips to a fateful cup of coffee, and was viciously:
with strangled
B noosed and well attuned to Paris's teamwork, ruthless aggres out a piece of clothes-line, piece of rope from the husband until she met Leonarda to the Emilia criminal bureau, linquished hope' of ever getting investigations were, transferred fastened into naughty gaieties, plled until slon, or organising ability already
saine Hne.
Clanculli. Then, with calculated she could not escape. quite recently a thriving to conduct large-scale crime noose and in an instant had
perfidy, this brazen woman," still. Was the WO- Hardly slipped it over his neck and
in' her forties, · suggested that of the operations.
Sentenced to thirty years' im- the floor,
she know of a serious-minded was pulling it tight with all man's body on
before Frau Kuslan's lover gentleman, a wealthy friend of prisonment, plus three years in
who needed someone
to a criminal naylum for the in- however, Interpol
knocked. "Just a moment," comfort him in his declining cane, this 41-year-old woman, was wined and
Her murderous assault she cried. "Stay outside years. Perhaps, she would like while awaiting her unsuccessful drug addicts, potential marks them down, mostly
Seidemann topple while I light the Christ- to visit him? He lived, she appeal, wrote more than 1,000 addicts and traffickers. They as girl friends of individual made
He mas
at Pola, a town some dis- Some as such sideways off his chair.
candles. Then had merely to
the toe away. The spinster, en- contact her criminals,
to learn
on top of Important actually rolled
scene
will enchant you." visaging an unexpected fun that life had used her harshly. aa get
As their charms her. But the 25-year-old She lit the candles it ment to her dreams of marriage, of her twelve children, had died. The others, 1949 assented. was Christmas Eve, age, so their knowledge be- nurse, divorced mother
feared, would also die pre- One day a new customer comes increasingly danger- three children, clung to her then pushed Frau
Merten's
maturely, appeared. Satisfied with his ous to themselves. Others, stranglehold with demoniac Dorothea
largely because her body self-introduction, she liked exploiting their attractive power, and strangled him under the bed,
mother, just before dying, had laid an unuttcrable - curse his debonair worldliness. ness, may be useful to trap While they drank together, unwary tourists. her chief male companion,
to buy as much dope they pleased at her price. secrets,
of
Then, with a terrify- ing callousness, she pro-
an Iranian subject, as deep- Nevertheless, in the field ceeded to dispose of his murder women
nar- of
ly implicated to the cotics, business as she was, hold their own with
can body, severing it with sur-
Tell-tale Clues
Fortunately,
Frau,
about her typewriter dealings.
said,
巍
She had dyed her
To heighten the imposture, the Cancuilli woman began
Betitious correspondence, writ ing in the name of her mythical Pola friend to Faustine, so building up an atmosphere of romance and marriage. Finally the spinster, overjoyed at the Merton, way things were panning out the gical skill into portions, before she disappeared the, came to bidi fond farewell to
she killers which joined them and they got most devilish male
subsequently too, was dumped in bits in Clancullli.
down to trade.
ever known. For prefer dumped among ruins in various debris-littered hiding grey hats blonde and sold her
places had informed friends house. "We give you," said the ence, they use poison. But both east and west sectors
The Clancufli woman, au called on Frau The police not always. Frau Elisa- of Berlin.
Kusian and found tell-tale clues,
tho ticipating
apinator's cauldron al- including garments belonging to visit had both her victims. Had not a new ready boiling on her stove, German law been introduced While Faustim still survived, only a few weeks before Frau sho persuaded her to sit down Kusian's trial rescind un in
the write some
some correspondence advanco
as if from Pola doubtedly, have been executed.
she was in saying how happy her new
arrange situation, Helene B., a woman of com- ments for her marriage having pletely different character, of
concluded. The spinster timorous nature, mentally and was practically illiterate, but physically preferred to kill by Leonarda guided her hand, and post-dated the lettere, also a poison. But he did it on
#cale. Before justice few postcards, written in simi- lar vein, to her few friends in
girl, "two kilogrammes of morphine, because we much like you."
" She was now drinking her seventh liqueur. "And we let you have it," she added archly, very cheap for 8,200,000 france."
over 4 lb
The FULL, authentic inside story of INTERPOL, the
death penalty, stwo organisation -- which over the fights international crime all :: world, which has been the means of ·
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It seemed a pretty stiff price, over £3,000 for just But of dope. he agreed to pay.. "We must collect the stuff in N's car," she said, refer- ring to the Iranian, who
Not Clinched
and
been
operation of the staff of INTERPOL. caght up with her, the had, the level.
0
Unutterable Curse
five husbands, twia of her children, and was charged, in ndition, at her, trial, with thir- ushered the two of them beth Kusian of Berlin, now To do this she borrow seen attempted murders. into his Studebaker and serving B life term for ed a suitcase from This monstrou
record, began Then, before the ink, was drove off to a shady spot in double murder, killed en- friend. When she return in 1936, when
dry, the murderess #truck. mixed rat sho a quiet boulevard.
tirely for monetary gain ed it, there were blotches polson in some milk and gave Saatching from its hiding place and used a particularly of blood on its lining. She it to her three-year-old daugh- a batchot, its edge already Zer, Hlide. The..child fell 111 sharpened, she rushed it down,
fatal force, into vicious method of dis apologised for them, ex- patching her victims.
plaining that she had wits paralysis, Her hair fell with
out. Within a
a week, she was pleater's skull. Then, with in- used the case, to carry dead. The doctor attending credible spoed, she severed her There the 4 lb of dope
Getting into conversation home a number of skinned her never suspected foul play, remains and disposed of them in the stemming” soap-making. changed hands, and the
bo Helene B., keeping her poison
cauldron. newcomer parted with his near the Berlin Zoo with rabbits.
mecrop to Excrwolf, decided to usd Hermann Seidelmanzi, Ek franca. But the deal was.
She used all the money menician.
it to pay off her grudge again not quite clinched, "Would commercial traveller, who
lived in the Soviet Zone, she found on him, hid you mind
to some of his clothes, and driving me home?" he asked. "I don't she found him anxious
eastern disposed of the rest In 'Hke to carry about auch exchange
west marka, the hospital, where she treasure in public transport marks for
This, she said, she would worked. you never know,”
sonte
Romantic Lur
Her twenty-year-old student. sta-proved innocent at her trial was, then sent to. Pola and on her orders, he posted the vic- and tim's reassuring letters postcards. Her atrocious erimna about murderess She felt aggrieved becauso vialded the -four of her children had died at 30,000 lee, which In 1989. re- a very tidy nest-emi, presented a
Hor next victim, a 55-yoar. old former hoolteacher, fren- oosen Sowyliwas disposed of In precisely the verse maner. But “this killing yielded her műpróbá
threw + months of tượn
do if he would meet her at So, although his remains an early age and because her He gave
them an ad- her flat that same evening. were soon afterwards dig buskende ferde Punted by sun changed them, treated her badly dress, and the Iranian Ho accepted
covered, and Identified, not of beating her and never mufficient - houINE- arrived punctually a clue emerged as to Seldel.alkówka
pala for * posso of Parisian police, and she ushered him into mam's killer. The nurse who arabbed the two trat & well furnished parlour.
to his horror - found his car suddenly surrounded by;
Ho
most certainly
Their agent, take There, after a few minutes have escaped detection the dope, then chat, he removed his coat together had she not his office to write the atmosphere being de
deptively warmİK `and cosy,
wou
sin only three week
pages of memoirs. She claimed
her
eight
sho
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