MURDER ON PRAIRIES
EIGHT STABBED TO DEATH
PARENTS AND SIX
CHILDREN
(Received 30th January,- 1 p.m.)
WINNIPEG, '29th ■ January.
An assassin crept into the .home of Martin Sipai,at Elma (Manitoba),'fifty/ miles south., of here, early on Friday; morning and atabbed to ■ death Veight persons, Sipar, his wife, ■ana' six children.. Two. other ■ Sipftr children are in a critical condition front knife wounds, and were' rescued" from • their beds,by their uncle, John Sipar, who ; was living nearby.; He-rushed t» the house,I'which had/been set afire by. the murderer. •■•.'.'■'
The police are searching for a-hire! man of name unknown, who has beet missing since the morning. ■> ; ■ The hired man, aged abont forty-five, isi saidjby the neighbours to be. a European' immigrant employed ?by' Sipar for two months. There is little-hope for the recovery of the wounded children aged less than three years.:! -The dead children are aged from three to -fifteen, years. Four other members of thG"*family were attacked.: : ;;;:7v" ■■■■':
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 14
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157MURDER ON PRAIRIES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 14
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