MOB STORMS A GAOL
ATTEMPT TO LYNCH YOUTH. MUBDERER OF SAVEETHEART. NEW YORK, July 15. A mo!) of 2l)u moil .sionitod the gaol nr, Gunion City, Dakota, to-day, but failed lo lynch AVilliam Meek, aged twenty, after lie had confessed to killing a sevoiiteeii-year-old girl named Beryl Hcaly, the daughter of one of the leading families in the community. They had Joved indiscreetly, and Beryl begged him to kill her, says Meek, wiio explained that the girl’s pleadings unnerved him. She said: “ Father will kill you if you don’t kill me,” so lie struck her on tho head witli a hammer and choked her to death. Meek says that lie hid the body in a straw stack, and then drove home and took another girl to a, picture theatre. Finally ho returned and set the straw on fire. Meek lias been sentenced to imjprisoumeut for life.
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Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 1
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146MOB STORMS A GAOL Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 1
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