"A PERFECT CRIME."
BUT MURDERER LEFT CLUE. DETROIT, October 26. Edward McCann has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife, in what he believed was a "perfect crime." Following a quarrel, McCann cut up his wife's body and distributed the pieces in fields aad ditches over a wide territory. Then his wife's sister came to visit her,, and she became suspicious when McCann himself disappeared from Detroit. With great persistence the sister scoured the countryside. She discovered the fingers of the dead woman and identified them by means of the fingerprint* taken by the immigration officials, for Mrs. McCann was Canadianborn. For 4S days McCunii eluded those who were hunting him throughout the country, but finally was arrested. When confronted with the evidence of his crime he confessed, and was sentenced within three- days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 257, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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