Word: faceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruxton figured on fooling police into thinking she might have been a man. With this in mind he detached from her corpse the entire face, stripping it off the skull with his scalpels and completing his attempt at sex-obliteration in the most thorough manner. Later cutting off the faceless head, he wrapped it in an old white blouse which had been patched under the arms. He sawed off arms and legs which he wrapped in sheets from the London Sunday Graphic for Sept. 15 and the Aug. 5 and 7 issues of Labor's Daily Herald. Finally Ratanji...
During the trial there was no direct evidence against Ratanji-Ruxton because nobody had seen him kill or dismember so much as a fly. The Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted...
...must be remembered that there are also innumerable women who for long years have been feeding, dressing, guarding an army of derelicts, armless, legless, blind, faceless, gas-etched trunks, and shellshocked, insane minds. You may not often see one. They are kept close, cherished from indecent display, but they exist and THEY are the army of martyrs...