MURDER OF FATHER
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DAUGHTER SHOOTS PRISONEB '■■ IN DOCK
VANCOUVER, 20th January.! Jack Worls, aged 30, was tried for the 'murder of Cicero Spenee at -Little Rock, Arkansas. . He explained that he killed his vi«- — time in self-defence and threw the body, into the Arkansas Eiver. Helen Spence, tho 17-year-old daughter of the dead man, listened to th» evidence, and just as the jury was about to retire, fired four_ shots into Worls's body, killing him in the prisoner's dock. She then quietly submitted to arrest. She claimed that Worls shot (her father in cold blood and threw him into the river while he- was still alive. ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 9
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110MURDER OF FATHER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 9
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