Word: ivantsov
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Very quickly telephones rang, messages arrived to say that this man was a Professor Ivantsov, mathematician at the Moscow Industrial Academy. U. S. reporters hurried around to Police Department headquarters to learn more about the mysterious end of Professor Ivantsov...
...just such an opportunity. Quick as a flash they pounced on the package, carried it off to an empty corner of the yards. To the horror of the sneak thieves, the package did not contain food, clothes, or boots, as they hoped, but the strangled body of Professor Ivantsov, neatly swathed in rags...
...soon as the body was identified, police called at Professor Ivantsov's apartment. The door had been opened with the Professor's own latchkey. Sheets were hung over the windows. His expensive fur coat and 1,000 rubles ($500) were gone. His clothes, his books, his bric-a-brac, every article of value had been gathered together and tied up in neat little flat packages. Moscow detectives inspected the room, retired to cogitate, emerged with a theory. Said the spokesman...
...This is the work of a diabolical Chinese murder gang. Professor Ivantsov is known to have been very fond of Chinese antiques. He was frequently seen in the Chinese quarter near Trubni Square searching for bargains. As you can see for yourselves, all these packages have been tied up in the manner of a Chinese laundry. The new municipal laundries have put thousands of private Chinese laundries out of work. Is it too much to suggest that this horrible murder and robbery is a laundrymen's revenge...
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