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Celebration Season

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.

by Giles

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Victim's Cries Were

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 ·

criminals to bringing thousands of justice. Written with the full.. co-

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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