'AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY'
YOUNG HUSBAND'S DEED FICTION ENACTED IN LIFE United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received July 23, 2.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 22. "An 'American tragedy," so typical of crime in this country, is reported to have occurred again at Sutton, v Massachusetts, where Newell Sherman, aged 26, son of a well-to-do family, and the father of two children, and a choir-singer and Scoutmaster, took his 23-year-old wife for a ride in a canoe in Lake Singletary and after singing "When I Consider the Work of This Hand," upset the canoe and pushed the young woman, who clung frantically to him, under,, the water. When her struggles ceased he swam 200 yards to the shore. He confessed that he ' hoped to marry a 16-year-old girl with whom he was infatuated. Sobbingly he explained today: "When I stopped singing the thought to murder her came back to my mind. I must have been crazy."
The crime is considered to be an almost perfect parallel to an "American Tragedy" made famous by Theodore Dreiser. •
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Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 10
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