AMERICAN CRIME
Sixteen Murdered in a
Single Day
GRIM LIST COMPILED
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright
(Rec. May 7, 7.30 p.m.).
New York, May 6.
An exceptional number of murders and sensational homicides are included in to-day’s list of crimes of violence which are reported from all over the nation.
A twenty-year-old gunman killed a policeman and a dance hall girl, and then robbed a bank. He is believed to have shot also his sixteen-year-old sweetheart.
A man and a girl were found killed in New Jersey, but there is no clue as to the murderers.
From Akron, Ohio, is reported the murder with an axe of a little girl. Her assailant apparently was a maniacal woman.
At Westfield, Massachusetts, the police arrested a respected church organist for the brutal “life insurance” murder of a friend.
The bodies of five persons were discovered in a Mississippi farmhouse, presumably killed by the father of the family. A 'fiegro servant killed a banker and his wife in the same State.
A young girl was unaccountably shot on a Cineinnatti street and died tonight. The police of New York shot two criminal suspects, and two gangsters killed one of their companions.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 189, 8 May 1931, Page 9
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