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Ervin Lang's torso, wrapped in a blanket, was found in a swamp across the Indiana line. Headlines: TORSO MURDER; SWAMP MURDER. The legs, neatly sawed with the trousers, socks and shoes still on, were presently found seven miles away in a trunk. Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing...
Something white wobbling at the bottom of Brentford Canal attracted three small boys last month. Soon they fished out a slimy human torso. In England the next thing to do in all such cases is to send for Sir Bernard Spilsbury...
Scrutinizing the Brentford Torso last week, England's real-life Sherlock Holmes, exclaimed: "Look at those freckles...
...others they might seem just freckles. To Sir Bernard Spilsbury the freckles on the Brentford Torso were scientific twins of the freckles on the Waterloo Legs...
...legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre...