Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DONALD V. SENOUR HAHN...
...Meine Damen und Herren," began the detective, "Ladies and Gentlemen, attention!" And with gloating gruesomeness he would "describe one of the 20 recent murders. The girl-perhaps the detective would choose to describe Maria Hahn- the girl was returning home at dusk when she was seized upon and subjected to such-and-such cruelty, slashed in such-and-such a way, murdered thus-and-so, finally buried in soft clay soil near a farmhouse...
...clay must have stuck to the murderer's clothes, but he got away! He got away!" the detective'pretends to gloat, then screams as he throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...