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TORSO SUSPECT FACESUE TESTSheriff Wants Confession Of Bricklayer to Be ‘Air-tight;* Says ‘He’s The Man/(Continued From Page J)link the suspect to the 11 other torso slayings until he had cleared up the Polillo case.He said, however: I really think he’s in on some of the other torso murders. We think he is involved in at least two more—Mrs, Rose Wallace, 40, (a Negro) and Edward W. Andrassy, 28. He knew them both ”Meanwhile Coroner Samuel R. Gerber planned to recheck all data in h!s files concerning the dissection of the bodies, the presence of knife marks on joints and other laboratory information.“Our records show some slight differences in the manner in which Mrs- Polillo’s body was dismembered and the manner in which the others were,” Dr. Gerber said, but I still feel that the murderer of Mrs. Polillo is responsible for all the crimes.”Dolezal will be queslioned further about his story of the disposal of parts oft Mrs Polillo’s body, O'Donnell declared. He said some parts of the body Dolezal said were thrown in the lake were in reality found on a rubbish heap The weather bureau said the lake was frozen over at the point where the prisoner said he disposed of the head.O’Donnell quoted Dolezal as saying he killed Mrs Polillo after a butcher-knife fight over money. He gave this version of the man’s story:She picked up a butcher knife and swung at me. I took the knife away. I punched her with my fist. Then I cut her head off and then I cut her body into pieces.I put pieces of her body in a basket. It took me three or four trips to dispose of t he body, x x x I went, down to the lake front about four times to make sure the head was not washed ashore ”Cleveland Torso Victim, Scene of Slaying, First Picture of SuspectWith the confession of Frank Dolazel, 52, to slaying and dismembering Mrs. Florence Polillo, one of Cleveland, Ohio's, 12 torso murder victims, police officials renewed efforts to solve the other 11 cases. The layout above shows—top, entrance to the murder house occupied by Dolazel. Lower left—Mrs Polillo. Lower right—the bath tub in which Dolazel is accused of dismembering Mrs. Polillo. at the right is Dolazel, bricklayer and former employe of a slaughter-house who has confessed, according to Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell, that he murdered one of Cleveland’s 12 torso slaying victims, a woman, and dismembered the body. Sheriff O'Donnell stated he is convinced that Dolazel was responsible for the 11 other torso murders which have plagued Cleveland police for several years.
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Mansfield News
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1939
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