SENSATION IN AMERICA.

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 5

SENSATION IN AMERICA.

FATHER HESLIN!S BODY FOUND.

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(ATTtnAMAN • N¥W HAUUt* CAILI AMMCUTfIN.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jlth August. The body of the Rev. Herim} the Catholic priest, who was kidnapped and held for ransom, has been found buried in sand on Salada Beach. There was a bullet-hole through the heart and the skull was crushed, murdef". The kidnappers did not receive the demanded ransom, and it is believed that they carried-out their threatai

NEW YORK, 11th August. A sensational development is reported .in connection -with the Father "Heslin ,case. On 2nd August an'excited, closely muffled foreigner called at the rectory and induced Father Heslin to accompany him oh a visit to an allegedly sick friend. Subsequently Archbishop Hanna received-^ demand for Father Heslin's ransom. On "Wednesday* a mechanic named Hightower informed the police that he had met a drunken foreigner, who declared he had killed a man and indicated the place of burial. High■'tower went to the spot, and., on digging, discovered 1 Father IKslin's body . shot , through the heart." Evidently Father I Heslin had been dead only a couple--6f days; after being:held prisoner. There are ■■. several indications that the grave had been dug and the priest placed on the^brink and then shot. '

- The.police are holding Hightower till they can investigate the disappearance of hie alleged informant. ' ' t