WARNING GIVEN BY MURDERER

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27877, 27 January 1956, Page 11

WARNING GIVEN BY MURDERER

“I INTEND TO KILL MANY PEOPLE” (Rec. 9 p.m.) EVANSVILLE (Indiana), Jan. 25.

Mrs Ruth Patton, a St. Louis waitress, who said she saw an escaped murderer. Leslie Irvin, the night after he escaped from gaol at Princeton, Indiana. was reported today to have received a letter bearing the murderer’s name, in which he said there were many other people he intended to kill. Irvin, sentenced to death for the murder of Wesley Kerr, a garage attendant, has been charged with the murder of five other persons. He was described at his trial as a “mad dog killer.” Kerr and his other alleged victims had their hands tied behind their backs and had been shot in the head.

The “Evansville Press” said today that it had learned Mrs Patton received the letter yesterday, and had given it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The newspaper said that the letter, written on a brown paper bag and postmarked New York, read: “Dear Mrs Ruth Patton, —Because you have been a good young lady and delayed telling the police about seeing me for 12 hours. I have no interest in killing you, but there are many other people I intend to kill. I am enclosing a clipping from a New York newspaper with our picture in it.—Sincerely yours, Leslie Irvin.”