MURDERS ON RANCH
CHIEF WITNESS’S FLIGHT.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn,—Copyright.)
(Recd. October 9, 1 p.m.) VANCOUVER, October 8
Jessie Clark, aged 19, the Canadian girl whose startling disclosures brought about the arrest of her uncle, Gordon Stuart Northcott, on sensational murder charges made a dramatic flight at midnight across the border. The girl bundled into a highpowered motor car and disappeared before the officers were aware she lhad gone. It is reported that agents of Northcott in California engineered the coup to prevent her giving testimony. Northcott and his mother are awaiting extradition on a charge of murder of four boys on a chicken ranch. A later report indicates that the flight was engineered by the California, police to prevent any recantation of Ker statement at the extradition proceedings.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1928, Page 6
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