NET TIGHTENS

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

NET TIGHTENS

LOS ANOELES "SACK" MURDER.

In face of the fact that the police have recovered from his apartment, jewels worth £10,000, belonging to the late Mrs. Amelia Appleby, millionaire widow of the Chicago inventor, Dr. Charles McMillan still maintains that it was not he who placed the mutilated remains of the millionairess in a sack and dropped them from a car. The police are weaving a clpse net of evidence around him.

The jewels, ' which included diamond rings and pearl necklaces, were discovered in McMillan's apartment wrapped in the dead woman's underclothing. Narcotics and hypodermic needles were found in the same package, which was carefully hidden. Mrs. Appleby's body was' cut into easily transportable pieces and sewn in sacks. It was held for identification "several days before Dr. McMillan was connected with the case, and newspaper clippings referring to the murder of a then unidentified woman were found in the doctor's pockets.

The late Mr. Appleby designed binders and other implements manufactured by the International Harvester and Deering Companies, and had a world-wide reputation.