BRUTAL MURDER OF CHILD
VOl Til ARRESTED FOR NEW YORK (TUME (Received October 15. 9.5 p.in.) NEW YORK. October 14. The incinerated body of Nancy I Costiyan, five-year-old daughter of the sales manager of an English silver firm, was found to-night in the basement furnace of one of the most exclusive apartment buildings of Mount Vernon, a suburb of New York. The child was the victim of one of the most fiendish crimes in recent years. The body was discovered by a man working on the building, who followed a trail of blood. The police arrested Lawrence Stone, a youth with a criminal record. A police car, answering the call, collided with another car near the scene of the crime, and as three injured policemen were being lifted into the ambulance, Stone, whose clothes were soaked with blood, climbed in. claiming that he had been injured in the same accident, but this was disproved, and his arrest followed. claim they saw Stone talking to the child earlier.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21296, 16 October 1934, Page 11
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