MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
FABULOUSLY RICH RUSSIAN. MAN OF MANY LOVES. LOS ANGELES SENSATION. (■Received 10.30 a.m.i NEW YORK, November 12. The police at Los Angeles are engaged in a mysterious murder case. Six years ago Harry Katz, 26 years of age, arrived, and claimed to be a Russian closely connected with tke late Czar's family. His identity was never traced, but, fabulously rich, he recently increased his fortune greatly by property speculation and diamond speculation. The police state that Katz was called at midnight into an anteroom of his magnificent apartments, where an assassin, after speaking a few words, shot him dead. Katz was a man of many loves. Among his letters were found a number from a well-known actress. The whole affair i* a mystery.— (A. and K.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 270, 13 November 1924, Page 5
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