“GORILLA MAN” RUN TO EARTH
ALLEGED PERPETRATOR OF MANY MURDERS Winnepeg, June 17. Rarle Nelson, the so-called gorilla man, has been positively identified as the alleged strangler of a woman and a girl here within the past.week. He has now been arrested. The police state that he is wanted for twenty similar strangling murders in the United States. He has degenerate hands, huge and hairy, arid huge teeth, with which he marks his victims. Fin-ger-prints on bedposts led to his identi- ’ fication.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 225, 20 June 1927, Page 3
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