KNIFE TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 10

KNIFE TRAGEDY.

U.S. RADIO STUDIO. MAN AWAITS SANITY TEST. BLUE RINGS ROUND MOON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, February It. A man who walked into a radio station in Los Angeles and slashed two victims, one fatally, with a huge j;ickknife while screams were carried info the microphone, stammered out a weird story of "putting blue rings around the moon" as he awaited a sanity hearing. A radio cooking class was in session when Clarence L. Walters, aged 41, became affected in an adjoining room, and before he could be quelled Edwin Wolverton, aged 21, of Grand Junction, Colorado, lay dying, and Warren Felilir.an, aged 40, financial writer for the "Wall Street Journal," was wounded. "I went to the studio to show them how to put blue rings around the moon," Walters declared in the psychopathic ward of the La* Angeles General Hospital. "If I stabbed a boy he must have got in my way." Wolverton was wounded as he wrestled with his assailant. The hitter's knife pierced his skull fo the brain, and he died within a few minutes. Fehlman, who also sought to overpower Walters, was slashed about the head, but his wounds were not considered serious. According to Miss Grace Kane, a secretary in the artists' bureau of the station, Walters approached her desk, and. after mumbling a few incoherent words, whipped out his knife. He shouted, "By , I'm going to get a job here!" The girl fled as Wolverton. appearing for an audition, entered the ofiicc. TV alters turn.'d on him. There was a brief struggle before Wolverton fell. Fehlman? entering a moment was attacked. His coat was cut to ribbons before Walters, breaking free, dashed down the hall. He accosted C. F. Wylie. station manager, in the oorridor. Wylie struck him a glancing blow with his fist. Walters fell, and before he could regain bis feet other studio attaches overpowered him.