"MURDER' FARM"
XORTHCOTT SENTENCED TO DEATH United Service. (Received 9th February, 2 p.m.) LOS ANGELES, Sth February,.
Gordon Stuart Northcott, aged -£i, has been found guilty of triple murder in July after three hours' deliberation, by tho jury. He will suffer the death penalty.
Northcott, who is declared to be a pervert, was aecuse'd of murdering boys at a Californian chicken farm after horrible torture. He and his mother were arrested on 19th September last at Okanagan, British Columbia, after the American police had been searching for them for several months. The case, which created a great sensatiOtt all over the world, has become known as the "Murder Farm" case. Human. bones were discovered in various parts of tbe^farm, and a crude guillotine was discovered in a collar on the farm. Sensational stories ■were told by several boy witnesses during the trial.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 10
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