YOUTHFUL MURDERER
FORMER SWEETHEART KILLED SENTENCED. TO DEATH. Pre*i Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 6. A message from Wilkesbarro, Pennsylvania, states that the sensational ‘‘ American tragedy ” murder case, socalled because it was an exact parallel to the plot in Dreiser’s novel of the same name, ended to-day when the jury decreed death in the electric chair for Robert Edwards, a youthful surveyor, for (lie murder of bis childhood sweetheart, Freda M'Kcchnie. The prosecution accused Edwards of having “ black-jacked ” and drowned the girl because she stood in the way of his romance with another girl higher in the social scale.
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Evening Star, Issue 21845, 8 October 1934, Page 9
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100YOUTHFUL MURDERER Evening Star, Issue 21845, 8 October 1934, Page 9
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