The body of an American Jew, Samuel Tallman, enroute through Germany to his native city of Bialystock, Poland, via train, was discovered yesterday on the road between Berlin and Posen.
The body was found in a mutilated state, It is believed that the murderer threw the body of his victim from a running train.
Tallman’s luggage has disappeared. The sum of $50 was found in his pockets. Tallman arrived on the Bremen. His body was discovered five hundred meters from the station Briesen. He was forty-six years old.
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