The sadist / authorized translation by Olga Illner ... and George Godwin.

  • Berg, Karl
Date:
1938
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Credit: The sadist / authorized translation by Olga Illner ... and George Godwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I had a skeleton key with me and with it gained en- trance to the first floor. I went into a room and up to the bed and strangled one of the children lying in it for some time. I left the room and went home again. There were three beds in the room. The girl I throttled was, I reckon, sixteen or seventeen years old. She did not scream or shout/' [To enter a bedroom in which there were three occupied beds, and to make a murderous assault upon an adolescent in one of them, is an inexplicable proceeding and departure from Kiirten's habit of cautiousness.—Editor.] The strangled girl was born in 1896—thus Kiirten had estimated her age correctly. A big interval now follows in the sequence of the crimes, due to a long term of penal servitude followed by Kiirten's mar- riage in Altenburg. Then, once more,in the environs of Diisseldorf, a place well known to him, Kiirten renewed his criminal activities. Case 14 In 1925 Kiirten started to have relations with two servant girls, Tiede and Mech. This is how Kiirten tells of it: I met Tiede and had sexual relations with her in her room where she was employed in the Bodinus- strasse. I got something good to eat there, too, and I could do with it, for I had at that time to work pretty hard. A week after meeting Tiede, I became acquaint- ed with Mech, a housemaid in a situation on the Bergischen Landstrasse. There, too, I got something to eat. I often grabbed Tiede by the throat and seized