WHOLESALE MURDER
GRIMES CONFESSED SEVERAL FAMILIES DONE TO DEATH. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, December 27. George Hassell, of Tucson (Arizona), who two years ago married his brother’s widow, has confessed that he killed her and her eight children last week. He has also confessed that he lias, obliterated at least two other families, using an axe each time. He said: “Five years ago I killed a woman with whom I lived and her three children when 1 got tired of her. 1 also killed two men in Oklahoma.” Hassell added that he wished to die quickly.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 5
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99WHOLESALE MURDER Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 5
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