RICH WIFE MURDERED
LOS ANGELES HORROR.
JJQDY CEMEN TED IN CISTERN.
(“Sydney Sun” Service.)
' NE.W YORK, Juno 15.
Two years ago .Mrs Grogan, of Los Angeles, lost her husband, who left a fortune. of two million dollars, made through oil speculating. The widow, who had a nineteen-year-old son, Patrick, later married Thomas Voting, a leading Los Angelos dentist, Mrs Young .mysteriously disappeared in February last, since when the police have kept a watch on Voting, finally arresting' him on a charge of murdering his wife. . • ' After his arrest, Young made a confession, in which he stated that he killed his wife and placed the body in a cistern hear th’eii- country bungalow, which Patrick)’ without any knowledge that a crime had been committed, assisted him to fill with 'Cement.
After the confession, the police visited the bungalow and unearthed the body from the cementThe police were long baffled by the cleverness with which Young concealed the crime. Eventually they obtained ;a clue brought by a diamond ring which he had removed from the dead woman’s fipgcr, and presented to his girl office assistant. The gifl handed it over to the police. ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1925, Page 5
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