THREE MEN HANGED
KILLING OF OLD WOMAN
GUILT SELF-DETERMINED
(Received February 1., 1.30 p.m.)
WINNIPEG, February 16.
Convicted of beating to de<ith an 81-year-old woman while committing burglary three men, Peter Korenowski, Daniel Prytula, and William Kanuka, were hanged together.
Desperate for funds after a series of carousals they plotted to rob a 91-year-old farmer, Elko Cottick, whom they believed to have money concealed i him. They broke into the farm-hous? beating Cottick and tying him up. Mrs. Cottick resisted and was fatally beaten.
The men were arrested only assuspects but supplied damaging evidence unknowingly by discussing the crime and agreeing to tell \e same story in Court, all of which was recorded through a hidden police microphone in their cells.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 10
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