Slew His Baby Girl

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)

Slew His Baby Girl

piREMEN called to a tenement in P aterson, New Jersey, were I puzzled by the coolness of 25-| year-old Alfred Schwa rzenbach, one of tHe tenants, who stood Watching the flames with a sardonic smile flickering over his face. My wif e and two lui-liy girls are inside," he told tliem- .111,1 the traces of his smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. The firemen carried tho man's wife 4own the escape l.idder to safety. Then found the two little girls.

Their bodies were badly burned; but their heads showed the firemen why Schwarzenliach wa« so calm. The skulls of both of them were battered in. 1 nler police "third degree," the I father, a silk worker unemployed for month. s,„,n confessed. He told detectixes how lie awoke carlv, tiptoed into the bedroom where Alberta, aged two. and Lorraine, just a year old. were sleeping, and beat them to death with a hammer. He told, too, how he then | set the room on tire with petrol and gave the alarm himself. T didn t want them to starve,** he , said, "so 1 killed them quickly." > < 1119 wife ' hysterical with griefhu'job^ en * Ctiag qUe ~