FLAPPER SLAYER.
Girl Wife Reprieved In Taxi
Drama.
HUSBAND WILL HANG. (Received 10 a.m.) MONTREAL, March 21. Doris McDonald, known as the "flapper slayer," has been reprieved, but her husband, George McDonald, will be executed on Friday at Valley Field. The couple were condemned for the murder of Adelaide Bouchard, a taxi-driver, who was shot and robbed while taking the couple to the international border last July. The death sentence on a 20-year-old girl created intense excitement in the United States and Eastern Canada, and great pressure was brought to bear for clemencv.
The girl was formerly a New York cabaret dancer. An alleged confession made public at Denver, Colorado, by a detective that the girl did the actual shooting, caused a Bensation. McDonald repudiated this a few days ago from the death cell. Another man is still wautcd for the murder.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 7
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