KILLED LIKE INSECTS
LATEST CABLEf
HUMAN LIFE HELD CHEAT 3 .'
AMAZING REVELATIONS.
[PES PSESB ASSOCIATION COPYBIGHT.]
NEW YORK, January 28.
waled to the police by the confession of youth named Allied Lehman, who was a witness in the trial of a foreigner accused of bomb throwing. Lehman revealed 80 cases of attempted murder by means of bombs, and the burning of two houses in Brooklyn in order to secure the insurance. Each bomb thrower was paid £lO.
One robbery, in which a Chinaman was murdered, netted Lehman Bs, and two men, who actually killed the Chinaman, got the same amount each. Lehman personally planted eighteen bombs, which caused great loss of property.
The police now believe that they have run to earth an expert gang of criminals engaged in a vast bomb conspiracy. Asked if he never thought of the human lives involved, Lehman declared that the killing of human beings was just the same as killing insects with him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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