The Archive · 1935

MYSTERIOUS KILLINGS IN 'SCOTLAND

London, Oct. 1.

A. gruesome discovery pointing to double murder by a madman is blaming the police of Moffat, in Dum-tries-shire.

'A number of parcels containing human remains have been recovered from the bottom of a ravine 80 ft. deep at a point two miles from Moffat, on the main road from [Carlisle to Edinburgh.

Doctors have ascertained that the remains are those of an adult man. jand woman, but the bodies appear to have been deliberately mutilated with a view to removing all trace of identity. The only clue at the present time are the newspapers in Jwhich the reinaing were draped.

'The police believe that the victims Jwere murdered, their bodies cut into pieces, taken to the spot in a motor-lear, and thrown into the ravine from the' bridge which spans it—Reuter.

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