OUTRAGE IN CALIFORNIA
SEARCH FOR THREE LITTLE GIRLS FOUND STRANGLED IN RAVINE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, June 28. An Inglewood message states that all the girls were found strangled to death with a cord. They were found in a rocky ravine by four Boy Scout searchers. The indications are that they were killed on Saturday afternoon. Wireless broadcasts have been sent out for the arrest of an ex-convict, who was identified by the elder sister of one of the victims as th.e man who had promised to take the girls rabbit hunting. [A previous message stated: Hundreds of men and boys are searching the brushy hills of that suburb of Los Angeles for three little girls vrho Lave been missing since Saturday, when their parents refused them permission to hunt rabbits with a loiterer. The missing girls are "Jeanette Stephens, aged eight, Madeline Everett, aged seven, and Melba Everett, aged nine. Boy Scouts, legionaries, police, sheriffs’deputies, and several G men are parJ ticipating in the hunt.] .
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Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 11
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167OUTRAGE IN CALIFORNIA Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 11
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